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So tell us your opinion: does Torah permit paying taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?"

That same day, some Tz'dukim came to him. They are the ones who say there is no such thing as resurrection, so they put to him a sh'eilah:

So whatever they tell you, take care to do it. But don't do what they do, because they talk but don't act!

"But woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! For you are shutting the Kingdom of Heaven in people's faces, neither entering yourselves nor allowing those who wish to enter to do so.

So someone who swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it.

Blind Parush! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean too.

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.

"So when you see the abomination that causes devastation spoken about through the prophet Dani'el standing in the Holy Place" (let the reader understand the allusion),

For there will appear false Messiahs and false prophets performing great miracles — amazing things! — so as to fool even the chosen, if possible.

So if people say to you, ‘Listen! He's out in the desert!' don't go; or, ‘Look! He's hidden away in a secret room!' don't believe it.

So stay alert, because you don't know on what day your Lord will come.

Now the bridegroom was late, so they all went to sleep.

So stay alert, because you know neither the day nor the hour.

His master said to him, ‘Excellent! You are a good and trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with a small amount, so I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and join in your master's happiness!'

His master said to him, ‘Excellent! you are a good and trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with a small amount, so I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and join in your master's happiness!'

I was afraid, so I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here! Take what belongs to you!'

‘You wicked, lazy servant!' said his master, ‘So you knew, did you, that I harvest where I haven't planted? and that I gather where I didn't sow seed?

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would at least have gotten back interest with my capital!

For everyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.

"Go into the city, to so-and-so," he replied, "and tell him that the Rabbi says, ‘My time is near, my talmidim and I are celebrating Pesach at your house.'"