Jesus

Instantly the father of the child exclaimed, "I do trust -- help my lack of trust!"

When Yeshua saw that the crowd was closing in on them, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit! I command you: come out of him, and never go back into him again!"

But Yeshua took him by the hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.

After Yeshua had gone indoors, his talmidim asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"

He said to them "This is the kind of spirit that can be driven out only by prayer."

After leaving that place, they went on through the Galil. Yeshua didn't want anyone to know,

because he was teaching his talmidim. He told them, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men who will put him to death; but after he has been killed, three days later he will rise."

But they didn't understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

They arrived at K'far-Nachum. When Yeshua was inside the house, he asked them, "What were you discussing as we were traveling?"

He sat down, summoned the Twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all."

He took a child and stood him among them. Then he put his arms around him and said to them,

"Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the One who sent me."

Yochanan said to him, "Rabbi, we saw a man expelling demons in your name; and because he wasn't one of us, we told him to stop."

But Yeshua said, "Don't stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name will soon after be able to say something bad about me.

Indeed, whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you come in the name of the Messiah -- yes! I tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.

"Whoever ensnares one of these little ones who trust me -- it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be thrown in the sea.

Then Yeshua left that place and went into the regions of Y'hudah and the territory beyond the Yarden. Again crowds gathered around him; and again, as usual, he taught them.

Some P'rushim came up and tried to trap him by asking him, "Does the Torah permit a man to divorce his wife?"

He replied, "What did Moshe command you?"

But Yeshua said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardheartedness.

When they were indoors once more, the talmidim asked him about this.

He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his wife;

People were bringing children to him so that he might touch them, but the talmidim rebuked those people.

However, when Yeshua saw it, he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me, don't stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Yes! I tell you, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it!"