The Life of Jesus

Because of this, I tell you that people will be forgiven any sin and blasphemy, but blaspheming the Ruach HaKodesh will not be forgiven.

One can say something against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but whoever keeps on speaking against the Ruach HaKodesh will never be forgiven, neither in the `olam hazeh nor in the `olam haba.

"If you make a tree good, its fruit will be good; and if you make a tree bad, its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

You snakes! How can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what overflows from the heart.

The good person brings forth good things from his store of good, and the evil person brings forth evil things from his store of evil.

Moreover, I tell you this: on the Day of Judgment people will have to give account for every careless word they have spoken;

for by your own words you will be acquitted, and by your own words you will be condemned."

At this some of the Torah-teachers said, "Rabbi, we want to see a miraculous sign from you."

He replied, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign? No! None will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Yonah.

For just as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-monster,f so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth.

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned from their sins to God when Yonah preached, but what is here now is greater than Yonah.

The Queen of the South will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, but what is here now is greater than Shlomo.

"When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it travels through dry country seeking rest and does not find it.

Then it says to itself, `I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house standing empty, swept clean and put in order.

Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they come and live there -- so that in the end, the person is worse off than he was before. This is how it will be for this wicked generation."

He was still speaking to the crowd when his mother and brothers appeared outside, asking to talk with him.

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

But to the one who had informed him he replied, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"

Pointing to his talmidim, he said, "Look! Here are my mother and my brothers!

Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants, that person is my brother and sister and mother."

That same day, Yeshua went out of the house and sat down by the lake;

but such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there while the crowd stood on the shore.

He told them many things in parables: "A farmer went out to sow his seed.

As he sowed, some seed fell alongside the path; and the birds came and ate it up.

Other seed fell on rocky patches where there was not much soil. It sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow;