The Life of Jesus

have trust as tiny as a mustard seed, you will be able to say to this mountain, `Move from here to there!' and it will move; indeed, nothing will be impossible for you!"

But this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting."

As they were going about together in the Galil, Yeshua said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of people

who will put him to death, and on the third day he will be raised." And they were filled with sadness.

When they came to K'far-Nachum, the collectors of the half-shekel came to Kefa and said, "Doesn't your rabbi pay the Temple tax?"

"Of course he does," said Kefa. When he arrived home, Yeshua spoke first. "Shim`on, what's your opinion? The kings of the earth -- from whom do they collect duties and taxes? From their sons or from others?"

"From others," he answered. "Then," said Yeshua, "The sons are exempt.

But to avoid offending them -- go to the lake, throw out a line, and take the first fish you catch. Open its mouth, and you will find a shekel. Take it and give it to them for me and for you."

At that moment the talmidim came to Yeshua and asked, "Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"

He called a child to him, stood him among them,

and said, "Yes! I tell you that unless you change and become like little children, you won't even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

So the greatest in the Kingdom is who ever makes himself as humble as this child.

Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me;

and 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 drowned in the open sea!

Woe to the world because of snares! For there must be snares, but woe to the person who sets the snare!

"So if your hand or foot becomes a snare for you, cut it off and throw it away! Better that you should be maimed or crippled and obtain eternal life than keep both hands or both feet and be thrown into everlasting fire!

And if your eye is a snare for you, gouge it out and fling it away! Better that you should be oneeyed and obtain eternal life than keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of Gei Hinnom.

See that you never despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually seeing the face of my Father in heaven.

For the Son of Man came to save the lost.

"What's your opinion? What will somebody do who has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away? Won't he leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides and go off to find the stray?

And if he happens to find it? Yes! I tell you he is happier over it than over the ninety-nine that never strayed!

Thus your Father in heaven does not want even one of these little ones to be lost.

"Moreover, if your brother commits a sin against you, go and show him his fault -- but privately, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

If he doesn't listen, take one or two others with you so that every accusation can be supported by the testimony of two or three witnesses.l

If he refuses to hear them, tell the congregation; and if he refuses to listen even to the congregation, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax-collector.