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"And when you pray, don't babble on and on like the pagans, who think God will hear them better if they talk a lot.

No one can be slave to two masters; for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can't be a slave to both God and money.

If this is how God clothes grass in the field — which is here today and gone tomorrow, thrown in an oven — won't he much more clothe you? What little trust you have!

They screamed, "What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?"

When the crowds saw this, they were awestruck and said a b'rakhah to God the Giver of such authority to human beings.

Then Yeshua began to denounce the towns in which he had done most of his miracles, because the people had not turned from their sins to God.

He entered the House of God and ate the Bread of the Presence!" — which was prohibited, both to him and to his companions; it is permitted only to the cohanim.

But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you!

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned from their sins to God when Yonah preached, but what is here now is greater than Yonah.

He answered, "Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition?

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,' and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, "I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,"

then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.' Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of God!

The people were amazed as they saw mute people speaking, crippled people cured, lame people walking and blind people seeing; and they said a b'rakhah to the God of Isra'el.

Shim‘on Kefa answered, "You are the Mashiach, the Son of the living God."

Thus they are no longer two, but one. So then, no one should split apart what God has joined together."

Furthermore, I tell you that it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

Yeshua looked at them and said, "Humanly, this is impossible; but with God everything is possible."

Which of the two did what his father wanted?" "The first," they replied. "That's right!" Yeshua said to them. "I tell you that the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you!

Therefore, I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to the kind of people that will produce its fruit!"