The Life of Jesus

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and all kinds of rottenness.

Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be good and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah.

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the tzaddikim,

and you say, `Had we lived when our fathers did, we would never have taken part in killing the prophets.'

In this you testify against yourselves that you are worthy descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Go ahead then, finish what your fathers started!

"You snakes! Sons of snakes! How can you escape being condemned to Gei Hinnom?

Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and Torah-teachers -- some of them you will kill, indeed, you will have them executed on stakes as criminals; some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Yes! I tell you that all this will fall on this generation

"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, leaving it desolate

For I tell you, from now on, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI.'"

As Yeshua left the Temple and was going away, his talmidim came and called his attention to its buildings.

But he answered them, "You see all these? Yes! I tell you, they will be totally destroyed -- not a single stone will be left standing!"

When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the talmidim came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that you are coming, and that the `olam hazeh is ending?"

Yeshua replied: "Watch out! Don't let anyone fool you!

For many will come in my name, saying, `I am the Messiah!' and they will lead many astray.

You will hear the noise of wars nearby and the news of wars far off; see to it that you don't become frightened. Such things must happen, but the end is yet to come.

For peoples will fight each other, nations will fight each other, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various parts of the world;

all this is but the beginning of the `birth pains.'

At that time you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and put to death, and all peoples will hate you because of me.

At that time many will be trapped into betraying and hating each other,

many false prophets will appear and fool many people;

and many people's love will grow cold because of increased distance from Torah.