The Life of Jesus

and none of the seven left children. Last of all, the woman also died.

In the Resurrection, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife."

Yeshua said to them, "Isn't this the reason that you go astray? because you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God?

For when people rise from the dead, neither men nor women marry -- they are like angels in heaven.

And as for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moshe, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, `I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya`akov'?

He is God not of the dead, but of the living! You are going far astray!"

One of the Torah-teachers came up and heard them engaged in this discussion. Seeing that Yeshua answered them well, he asked him, "Which is the most important mitzvah of them all?"

Yeshua answered, "The most important is, `Sh'ma Yisra'el, ADONAI Eloheinu, ADONAI echad [Hear, O Isra'el, the LORD our God, the LORD is one],

and you are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.'

The second is this: `You are to love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other mitzvah greater than these."

The Torah-teacher said to him, "Well said, Rabbi; you speak the truth when you say that he is one, and that there is no other besides him;

and that loving him with all one's heart, understanding and strength, and loving one's neighbor as oneself, mean more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."

When Yeshua saw that he responded sensibly, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." And after that, no one dared put to him another sh'eilah.

As Yeshua was teaching in the Temple, he asked, "How is it that the Torah teachers say the Messiah is the Son of David?

David himself, inspired by the Ruach HaKodesh, said, `ADONAI said to my Lord, "Sit here at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." '

David himself calls him `Lord'; so how is he his son?" The great crowd listened eagerly to him.

As he taught them, he said, "Watch out for the kind of Torah-teachers who like to walk around in robes and be greeted deferentially in the marketplaces,

who like to have the best seats in the synagogues and take the places of honor at banquets,

who like to swallow up widows' houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!"

Then Yeshua sat down opposite the Temple treasury and watched the crowd as they put money into the offering-boxes. Many rich people put in large sums,

but a poor widow came and put in two small coins.

He called his talmidim to him and said to them, "Yes! I tell you, this poor widow has put more in the offering-box than all the others making donations.

For all of them, out of their wealth, have contributed money they can easily spare; but she, out of her poverty, has given everything she had to live on."

As Yeshua came out of the Temple, one of the talmidim said to him, "Look, Rabbi! What huge stones! What magnificent buildings!"

"You see all these great buildings?" Yeshua said to him, "They will be totally destroyed -- not a single stone will be left standing!"