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to them and to the nations. And after a little: Brother will deliver brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and will put them to death. And you will be hated by all on account of my name; but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved ... And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. JOHN. These things I have spoken to you, that you may not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And these things they will do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me, and so forth. LUKE. And those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 2 CORINTHIANS. For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; but we ourselves had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. 2 TIMOTHY. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. That one must not cast himself into temptations before the time of God's permission, but also to pray not to fall into temptation. Chapter 2. MATTHEW. Pray then like this: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. And after a little: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. JOHN. And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee; for He was not willing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near. Therefore His brothers said to Him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see the works which You are doing. For no one does anything in secret, and seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world." For not even His brothers were believing in Him. So Jesus said to them, "My time 31.800 is not yet here; but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me, because I testify of it, that its works are evil. You go up to the feast; I am not yet going up to this feast, because My time has not yet fully come. And having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee. But when His brothers had gone up, then He Himself also went up to the feast, not openly, but as if in secret. LUKE. Rise and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. That it is necessary at times to withdraw from those who plot, but having been permitted to fall into temptation, to ask for the way of escape to be able to endure, and the will of God through prayer. Chapter 3. MATTHEW. When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against Him, how they might destroy Him. But Jesus, knowing it, withdrew from there. JOHN. So from that day on they planned to kill Him. Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. LUKE. And kneeling down, He prayed, saying, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours, be done." 1 CORINTHIANS. No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it. That the Christian must in temptations, for each of the things brought against him, remembering those things spoken in the divinely inspired Scripture for the matter at hand, thus both keep himself unharmed, and overcome his adversaries. Chapter 4. MATTHEW. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,

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αὐτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἔθνεσι. Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· Παραδώσει δὲ ἀδελφὸς ἀδελφὸν εἰς θάνατον, καὶ πατὴρ τέκνον· καὶ ἐπαναστήσονται τέκνα ἐπὶ γονεῖς, καὶ θανατώσουσιν αὐτούς. Καὶ ἔσεσθε μισούμενοι ὑπὸ πάντων διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου· ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας εἰς τέλος, οὗτος σωθήσεται ... Καὶ ὃς οὐ λαμβάνει τὸν σταυρὸν αὑτοῦ, καὶ ἀκο λουθεῖ ὀπίσω μου, οὐκ ἔστι μου ἄξιος. ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ. Ταῦτα λελάληκα ὑμῖν, ἵνα μὴ σκανδαλισθῆτε. Ἀποσυναγώγους ποιήσουσιν ὑμᾶς· ἀλλ' ἔρχεται ὥρα, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ ἀποκτείνας ὑμᾶς δόξῃ λατρείαν προσφέρειν τῷ Θεῷ. Καὶ ταῦτα ποιήσουσιν ὑμῖν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὸν Πατέρα, οὐδὲ ἐμὲ, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. ΛΟΥΚΑΣ. Οἱ δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς πέτρας, οἳ, ὅταν ἀκούσωσι, μετὰ χαρᾶς δέχονται τὸν λόγον, καὶ οὗτοι ῥίζαν οὐκ ἔχουσιν, οἳ πρὸς καιρὸν πιστεύ ουσι, καὶ ἐν καιρῷ πειρασμῶν ἀφίστανται. ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡ. βʹ. Οὐ θέλω γὰρ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοὶ, περὶ τῆς θλίψεως ἡμῶν τῆς γενομένης ἡμῖν ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ, ὅτι καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ὑπὲρ δύναμιν ἐβαρή θημεν, ὥστε ἐξαπορηθῆναι ἡμᾶς καὶ τοῦ ζῇν· ἀλλ' αὐτοὶ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς τὸ ἀπόκριμα τοῦ θανάτου ἐσχήκαμεν, ἵνα μὴ πεποιθότες ὦμεν ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τῷ Θεῷ τῷ ἐγείροντι τοὺς νεκρούς. ΠΡΟΣ ΤΙΜ. βʹ. Πάντες δὲ οἱ θέλοντες εὐσεβῶς ζῇν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, διωχθήσονται. Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ ἑαυτὸν ἐπιῤῥίπτειν πειρασμοῖς πρὸ και ροῦ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ συγχωρήσεως, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσ εύχεσθαι μὴ ἐμπεσεῖν εἰς πειρασμόν. Κεφάλ. βʹ. ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΣ. Οὕτως οὖν προσεύχεσθε· Πάτερ ἡμῶν, ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου, ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου. Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· Καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμὸν, ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ. ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ. Καὶ περιεπάτει ὁ Ἰησοῦς μετὰ ταῦτα ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ· οὐ γὰρ ἤθελεν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ περιπατεῖν, ὅτι ἐζή τουν αὐτὸν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἀποκτεῖναι. Ἦν δὲ ἐγγὺς ἡ ἑορτὴ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ἡ Σκηνοπηγία. Εἶπον οὖν πρὸς αὐτὸν οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ· Μετάβηθι ἐντεῦ θεν, καὶ ὕπαγε εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν, ἵνα καὶ οἱ μα θηταί σου θεωρήσωσι τὰ ἔργα ἃ ποιεῖς. Οὐδεὶς γὰρ ἐν κρυπτῷ ποιεῖ τι, καὶ ζητεῖ αὐτὸς ἐν παῤ ῥησίᾳ εἶναι. Εἰ ταῦτα ποιεῖς, φανέρωσον σεαυτὸν τῷ κόσμῳ. Οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπίστευον εἰς αὐτόν. Λέγει οὖν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς· Ὁ και 31.800 ρὸς ὁ ἐμὸς οὔπω πάρεστιν· ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὁ ὑμέτερος πάντοτέ ἐστιν ἕτοιμος. Οὐ δύναται ὁ κόσμος μισεῖν ὑμᾶς· ἐμὲ δὲ μισεῖ, ὅτι ἐγὼ μαρ τυρῶ περὶ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ πονηρά ἐστιν. Ὑμεῖς ἀνάβητε εἰς τὴν ἑορτήν· ἐγὼ οὔπω ἀνα βαίνω εἰς τὴν ἑορτὴν ταύτην, ὅτι ὁ καιρὸς ὁ ἐμὸς οὔπω πεπλήρωται. Ταῦτα δὲ εἰπὼν αὐτοῖς, ἔμεινεν ἐν τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ. Ὡς δὲ ἀνέβησαν οἱ ἀδελ φοὶ αὐτοῦ, τότε καὶ αὐτὸς ἀνέβη εἰς τὴν ἑορτὴν, οὐ φανερῶς, ἀλλ' ὡς ἐν κρυπτῷ. ΛΟΥΚΑΣ. Ἀναστάντες δὲ προσεύχεσθε, ἵνα μὴ ἐμπέσητε εἰς πειρασμόν. Ὅτι δεῖ κατὰ καιρὸν ὑπαναχωρεῖν τῶν ἐπιβου λευόντων, συγχωρηθέντα μέντοι περιπεσεῖν πει ρασμῷ, τὴν ἔκβασιν τοῦ δύνασθαι ὑπενεγκεῖν, καὶ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ διὰ προσευχῆς αἰτεῖν. Κεφάλ. γʹ. ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΣ. Ὅταν διώκωσιν ὑμᾶς ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, φεύγετε εἰς τὴν ἄλλην. Οἱ δὲ Φαρισαῖοι συμβούλιον ἔλαβον κατ' αὐτοῦ, ἐξελθόντες, ὅπως αὐτὸν ἀπολέσωσιν. Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς, γνοὺς, ἀνεχώρησεν ἐκεῖθεν. ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ. Ἀπ' ἐκείνης οὖν τῆς ἡμέρας συνεβουλεύσαντο, ἵνα ἀποκτείνωσιν αὐ τόν. Ἰησοῦς οὖν οὐκέτι παῤῥησίᾳ περιεπάτει ἐν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις. ΛΟΥΚΑΣ. Καὶ θεὶς τὰ γόνατα, προσηύχετο λέγων· Πάτερ, εἰ βούλει παρενεγκεῖν τὸ ποτήριον τοῦτο ἀπ' ἐμοῦ· πλὴν μὴ τὸ θέλημά μου, ἀλλὰ τὸ σὸν γενέσθω. ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡ. αʹ. Πειρασμὸς ὑμᾶς οὐκ εἴληφεν εἰ μὴ ἀνθρώπινος· πιστὸς δὲ ὁ Θεὸς, ὃς οὐκ ἐάσει ὑμᾶς πειρασθῆ ναι ὑπὲρ ὃ δύνασθε, ἀλλὰ ποιήσει σὺν τῷ πει ρασμῷ καὶ τὴν ἔκβασιν, τοῦ δύνασθαι ὑπ ενεγκεῖν. Ὅτι δεῖ τὸν Χριστιανὸν ἐν τοῖς πειρασμοῖς ἐφ' ἑκά στῳ τῶν προσαγομένων αὐτῷ, μνημονεύοντα τῶν ἐν τῇ θεοπνεύστῳ Γραφῇ πρὸς τὸ προκείμενον εἰρημένων, οὕτως αὐτόν τε ἀνεπηρέαστον συν τηρεῖν, καὶ τοὺς ἐναντίους καταργεῖν. Κεφάλ. δʹ. ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΣ. Τότε ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀνήχθη εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ὑπὸ τοῦ Πνεύματος, πειρασθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου. Καὶ νηστεύσας ἡμέρας τεσσαράκοντα, καὶ νύκτας τεσσαράκοντα,