The Life of Jesus

But they didn't understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him.

They arrived at K'far-Nachum. When Yeshua was inside the house, he asked them, "What were you discussing as we were traveling?"

But they kept quiet; because on the way, they had been arguing with each other about who was the greatest.

He sat down, summoned the Twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all."

He took a child and stood him among them. Then he put his arms around him and said to them,

"Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the One who sent me."

Yochanan said to him, "Rabbi, we saw a man expelling demons in your name; and because he wasn't one of us, we told him to stop."

But Yeshua said, "Don't stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name will soon after be able to say something bad about me.

For whoever is not against us is for us.

Indeed, whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you come in the name of the Messiah -- yes! I tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.

"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 thrown in the sea.

If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to Gei-Hinnom, to unquenchable fire!

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

And if your foot makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be lame but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both feet and be thrown into Gei-Hinnom!

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

And if your eye makes you sin, pluck it out! Better that you should be one-eyed but enter the Kingdom of God, rather than keep both eyes and be thrown into Gei-Hinnom,

where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

Indeed, everyone is going to be salted with fire.

Salt is excellent, but if it loses its saltiness, how will you season it? So have salt in yourselves -- that is, be at peace with each other."

Then Yeshua left that place and went into the regions of Y'hudah and the territory beyond the Yarden. Again crowds gathered around him; and again, as usual, he taught them.

Some P'rushim came up and tried to trap him by asking him, "Does the Torah permit a man to divorce his wife?"

He replied, "What did Moshe command you?"

They said, "Moshe allowed a man to hand his wife a get and divorce her."

But Yeshua said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardheartedness.

However, at the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.