The Life of Jesus

Likewise a Levi who reached the place and saw him also passed by on the other side.

“But a man from Shomron who was traveling came upon him; and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.

So he went up to him, put oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them. Then he set him on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day, he took out two days’ wages, gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Look after him; and if you spend more than this, I’ll pay you back when I return.’

Of these three, which one seems to you to have become the ‘neighbor’ of the man who fell among robbers?”

He answered, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Yeshua said to him, “You go and do as he did.”

On their way Yeshua and his talmidim came to a village where a woman named Marta welcomed him into her home.

She had a sister called Miryam who also sat at the Lord’s feet and heard what he had to say.

But Marta was busy with all the work to be done; so, going up to him, she said, “Sir, don’t you care that my sister has been leaving me to do all the work by myself?”

However, the Lord answered her, “Marta, Marta, you are fretting and worrying about so many things!

But there is only one thing that is essential. Miryam has chosen the right thing, and it won’t be taken away from her.”

One time Yeshua was in a certain place praying. As he finished, one of the talmidim said to him, “Sir, teach us to pray, just as Yochanan taught his talmidim.”

He said to them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, May your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come.

Give us each day the food we need.

Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive everyone who has wronged us. And do not lead us to hard testing.’”

He also said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend; and you go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

because a friend of mine who has been travelling has just arrived at my house, and I have nothing for him to eat.’

Now the one inside may answer, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already shut, my children are with me in bed — I can’t get up to give you anything!’

But I tell you, even if he won’t get up because the man is his friend, yet because of the man’s hutzpah he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

“Moreover, I myself say to you: keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who goes on asking receives; and he who goes on seeking finds; and to him who continues knocking, the door will be opened.

“Is there any father here who, if his son asked him for a fish, would instead of a fish give him a snake?

or if he asked for an egg would give him a scorpion?

So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will the Father keep giving the Ruach HaKodesh from heaven to those who keep asking him!”

He was expelling a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute spoke; and the people were astounded.