Jesus

He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Pay attention: today and tomorrow I am driving out demons and healing people, and on the third day I reach my goal.’

Nevertheless, I must keep travelling today, tomorrow and the next day; because it is unthinkable that a prophet should die anywhere but in Yerushalayim.

“Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets! You stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

Look! God is abandoning your house to you! I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai!’”

One Shabbat Yeshua went to eat in the home of one of the leading P’rushim, and they were watching him closely.

In front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.

Yeshua spoke up and asked the Torah experts and P’rushim, “Does the Torah allow healing on Shabbat or not?”

But they said nothing. So, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.

And to these things they could give no answer.

When Yeshua noticed how the guests were choosing for themselves the best seats at the table, he told them this parable:

Yeshua also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives or rich neighbors; for they may well invite you in return, and that will be your repayment.

On hearing this, one of the people at the table with Yeshua said to him, “How blessed are those who eat bread in the Kingdom of God!”

But he replied, “Once a man gave a banquet and invited many people.

The slave said, ‘Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’

Large crowds were traveling along with Yeshua. Turning, he said to them,

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid.

Whoever does not carry his own execution-stake and come after me cannot be my talmid.

“So every one of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has cannot be my talmid.

The tax-collectors and sinners kept gathering around to hear Yeshua,

and the P’rushim and Torah-teachers kept grumbling. “This fellow,” they said, “welcomes sinners — he even eats with them!”

So he told them this parable:

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy among God’s angels when one sinner repents.”

Again Yeshua said, “A man had two sons.

‘Son, you are always with me,’ said the father, ‘and everything I have is yours.