Jesus

“I have come to set fire to the earth! And how I wish it were already kindled!

I have an immersion to undergo — how pressured I feel till it’s over!

Do you think that I have come to bring peace in the Land? Not peace, I tell you, but division!

Then to the crowds Yeshua said, “When you see a cloud-bank rising in the west, at once you say that a rainstorm is coming;

I tell you, you won’t get out of there till you have paid the last penny!”

Just then, some people came to tell Yeshua about the men from the Galil whom Pilate had slaughtered even while they were slaughtering animals for sacrifice.

His answer to them was, “Do you think that just because they died so horribly, these folks from the Galil were worse sinners than all the others from the Galil?

No, I tell you. Rather, unless you turn to God from your sins, you will all die as they did!

No, I tell you. Rather, unless you turn from your sins, you will all die similarly.”

But he answered, ‘Sir, leave it alone one more year. I’ll dig around it and put manure on it.

Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat.

On seeing her, Yeshua called her and said to her, “Lady, you have been set free from your weakness!”

He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.

But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, “There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!”

However, the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Each one of you on Shabbat — don’t you unloose your ox or your donkey from the stall and lead him off to drink?

By these words, Yeshua put to shame the people who opposed him; but the rest of the crowd were happy about all the wonderful things that were taking place through him.

So he went on to say, “What is the Kingdom of God like? With what will we compare it?

Again he said, “With what will I compare the Kingdom of God?

Yeshua continued traveling through town after town and village after village, teaching and making his way toward Yerushalayim.

Someone asked him, “Are only a few people being saved?”

He answered, “Struggle to get in through the narrow door, because — I’m telling you! — many will be demanding to get in and won’t be able to,

once the owner of the house has gotten up and shut the door. You will stand outside, knocking at the door and saying, ‘Lord! Open up for us!’ But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from!’

Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you! you taught in our streets!’

and he will tell you, ‘I don’t know where you’re from. Get away from me, all you workers of wickedness!’

Just at that moment, some P’rushim came up and said to Yeshua, “Get out and go away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!”