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\subsection{\Matthew 18}
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\subsubsection{Questions About the Greatest}
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\VS{1} In that hour the disciples came to \Iesous saying:
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Who then is greater in the kingdom of the heavens?
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\VS{2} And when he called [a] child he stood him in their midst
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\VS{3} and said:
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Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become as the child,
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you will not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
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\VS{4} Whoever therefore humbles himself as this child,
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this is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.
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\VS{5} And whoever receives [one] such child in my name receives me.
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\VS{6} but whoever causes one of these little [ones] trusting\fnPistis{} in me to stumble,
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it is better for him that [a] millstone be hung around his neck
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and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.
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\VS{7} Woe to the world because of those\footnote{can also mean ``those things"} causing stumbling.
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It is necessary for stumbling to come, nevertheless woe to the person through whom comes the stumbling.
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\VS{8} But if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw [it] from you.
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It is better for you to enter into zoe-life\fnZoe{} crippled or deformed
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than having two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
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\VS{9} And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw [it] from you.
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It is better for you to enter into zoe-life\fnZoe{} one-eyed than having two eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna of fire\fnGehenna{}.
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\subsubsection{Parable of the Lost Sheep}
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\VS{10} Be seeing that you do not despise one of these little [ones],
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For I say to you that their angels in [the] heavens always see the face of my father in the heavens.
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\VS{11} For the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{} came to save the lost%
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\footnote{vs. 11: DW \koine{} \vulgate{} few; omit vs. 11: \sinaiticus{}B
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}.
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\VS{12} How does it seem to you? If it should come to pass to [a] certain person
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one hundred sheep and one of them gone astray,
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will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and having gone seek the [one] gone astray?
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\VS{13} And if it come to pass he finds it,
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truly I say to you that he rejoices upon it more than upon the ninety-nine that had not gone astray.
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\VS{14} Thus it is not [a] wish before your father in the heavens that [one] of these little [ones] be lost\fnApollumi{}.
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\subsubsection{Restoring Relationships}
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\VS{15} But if your brother sins, go tell him between you and him only.
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If he hears you, you have won your brother.
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\VS{16} But if he not hear you, take along with you yet one or two,
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that on [the] mouth of two or three testifiers might stand every word.
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\VS{17} But if he not hear them, speak to the assembly\fnEkklhsia{}.
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And if he refuse to hear the assembly\fnEkklhsia{},
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he must be to you as the gentile and the tax-gatherer.
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\VS{18} Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on the earth will have been bound in heaven,
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and whatever you loose on the earth will have been loosed in heaven.
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\VS{19} Again I truly say to you that if two among you be in agreement
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on the earth concerning any matter that they ask,
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it will come to pass from my father in [the] heavens.
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\VS{20} For when two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in their midst.
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\VS{21} Then \Petros having come he said to him:
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Lord, how often will my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven?
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\VS{22} \Iesous says to him: I do not say to you until seven, but until seventy times seven.
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\subsubsection{The Parable of the Unforgiving Slave}
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\VS{23} Because of this the kingdom of the heavens is like to [a] man [who is] king,
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who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.
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\VS{24} So when he began to be settling [them],
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there was brought to him [a] debtor of [a] thousand talents\fnTalent{}.
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\VS{25} And not having [them] to pay,
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the lord ordered him to be sold and his wife and his children and all that he has for payment.
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\VS{26} The slave therefore falling down knelt before him saying:
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Be patient with me, and I will pay all to you.
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\VS{27} And the lord having compassion on this slave loosed him, and allowed him the loan.
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\VS{28} So when that slave went out he found one of his fellow-slaves,
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which owed him [a] hundred denari\fnDenarion{}, and laying hold he was choking him saying: Pay what you owe!
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\VS{29} Falling down therefore his fellow-slave knelt before him saying:
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Be patient with me and I will pay you.
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\VS{30} But he did not wish to, but having departed,
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threw him into prison until he pay the debt.
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\VS{31} His fellow-slaves therefore seeing what came to pass were greatly troubled,
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and having come, reported to their lord all that came to pass.
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\VS{32} Then when his lord called him he said to him: Wicked\fnPoneros{} slave,
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all this debt I allowed you because you called upon me.
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\VS{33} Mustn't you also have mercy on your fellow-slave as I also had mercy on you?
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\VS{34} And having been angered, his lord gave him over to the torturer%
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\footnote{or ``jailer''. Jailors at that time were also responsible for torture.}
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until he pay all his debt to him.
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\VS{35} Thus also your heavenly father will do to you,
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if you do not forgive each of your brothers from your heart.
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