⁴⁷‘Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a net that was cast into the sea, and did gather together of every kind, ⁴⁸which, when it was filled, having drawn up again upon the beach, and having sat down, they gathered the good into vessels, and the bad they did cast out, ⁴⁹so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous, ⁵⁰and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.’ ⁵¹Jesus saith to them, ‘Did ye understand all these?’ They say to him, ‘Yes, sir.’ ⁵²And he said to them, ‘Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.’

⁵³And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these similes, he removed thence, ⁵⁴and having come to his own country, he was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and were saying, ‘Whence to this one this wisdom and the mighty works? ⁵⁵is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶and his sisters—are they not all with us? whence, then, to this one all these?’ ⁵⁷and they were stumbled at him. And Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honour except in his own country, and in his own house:’ ⁵⁸and he did not there many mighty works, because of their unbelief.

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