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The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will be mine.’ So the father divided the property between them.

I’m going to get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you;

His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son — ’

No servant can be slave to two masters, for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can’t be a slave to both God and money.”

He said to them, “You people make yourselves look righteous to others, but God knows your hearts; what people regard highly is an abomination before God!

Up to the time of Yochanan there were the Torah and the Prophets. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is pushing to get in.

He called out, ‘Father Avraham, take pity on me, and send El‘azar just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, because I’m in agony in this fire!’

One of them, as soon as he noticed that he had been healed, returned shouting praises to God,

Was no one found coming back to give glory to God except this foreigner?”

The P’rushim asked Yeshua when the Kingdom of God would come. “The Kingdom of God,” he answered, “does not come with visible signs;

nor will people be able to say, ‘Look! Here it is!’ or, ‘Over there!’ Because, you see, the Kingdom of God is among you.”

“In a certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected other people.

For a long time he refused; but after awhile, he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God, and I don’t respect other people;

Now won’t God grant justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Is he delaying long over them?

The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!

But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God! Have mercy on me, sinner that I am!’

However, Yeshua called the children to him and said, “Let the children come to me, and stop hindering them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Yes! I tell you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will not enter it at all!”

Yeshua looked at him and said, “How hard it is for people with wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!

It’s easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!”

He said, “What is impossible humanly is possible with God.”

Yeshua answered them, “Yes! I tell you that everyone who has left house, wife, brothers, parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

Instantly he received his sight and began following him, glorifying God; and when all the people saw it, they too praised God.

While they were listening to this, Yeshua went on to tell a parable, because he was near Yerushalayim, and the people supposed that the Kingdom of God was about to appear at any moment.

and as he came near Yerushalayim, where the road descends from the Mount of Olives, the entire band of talmidim began to sing and praise God at the top of their voices for all the powerful works they had seen: