The Life of Jesus

However, Avraham said, ‘Son, remember that when you were alive, you got the good things while he got the bad; but now he gets his consolation here, while you are the one in agony.

Yet that isn’t all: between you and us a deep rift has been established, so that those who would like to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

“He answered, ‘Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father’s house,

where I have five brothers, to warn them; so that they may be spared having to come to this place of torment too.’

But Avraham said, ‘They have Moshe and the Prophets; they should listen to them.’

However, he said, ‘No, father Avraham, they need more. If someone from the dead goes to them, they’ll repent!’

But he replied, ‘If they won’t listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won’t be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!’”

Yeshua said to his talmidim, “It is impossible that snares will not be set. But woe to the person who sets them!

It would be to his advantage that he have a millstone hung around his neck and he be thrown into the sea, rather than that he ensnare one of these little ones.

Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Also, if seven times in one day he sins against you, and seven times he comes to you and says, ‘I repent,’ you are to forgive him.”

The emissaries said to the Lord, “Increase our trust.”

The Lord replied, “If you had trust as tiny as a mustard seed, you could say to this fig tree, ‘Be uprooted and replanted in the sea!’ and it would obey you.

If one of you has a slave tending the sheep or plowing, when he comes back from the field, will you say to him, ‘Come along now, sit down and eat’?

No, you’ll say, ‘Get my supper ready, dress for work, and serve me until I have finished eating and drinking; after that, you may eat and drink.’

Does he thank the slave because he did what he was told to do? No!

It’s the same with you — when you have done everything you were told to do, you should be saying, ‘We’re just ordinary slaves, we have only done our duty.’”

On his way to Yerushalayim, Yeshua passed along the border country between Shomron and the Galil.

As he entered one of the villages, ten men afflicted with tzara‘at met him. They stood at a distance

and called out, “Yeshua! Rabbi! Have pity on us!”

On seeing them, he said, “Go and let the cohanim examine you!” And as they went, they were cleansed.

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

and fell on his face at Yeshua’s feet to thank him. Now he was from Shomron.

Yeshua said, “Weren’t ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

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