Study Desk

But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God! Have mercy on me, sinner that I am!'

I tell you, this man went down to his home right with God rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."

However, Yeshua called the children to him and said, "Let the children come to me, and stop hindering them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Yes! I tell you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will not enter it at all!"

Yeshua said to him, "Why are you calling me good? No one is good but God!

Yeshua looked at him and said, "How hard it is for people with wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!

It's easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!"

He said, "What is impossible humanly is possible with God."

Yeshua answered them, "Yes! I tell you that everyone who has left house, wife, brothers, parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

Instantly he received his sight and began following him, glorifying God; and when all the people saw it, they too praised God.

While they were listening to this, Yeshua went on to tell a parable, because he was near Yerushalayim, and the people supposed that the Kingdom of God was about to appear at any moment.

and as he came near Yerushalayim, where the road descends from the Mount of Olives, the entire band of talmidim began to sing and praise God at the top of their voices for all the powerful works they had seen:

and dash you to the ground, you and your children within your walls, leaving not one stone standing on another — and all because you did not recognize your opportunity when God offered it!"

"Then," he said to them, "give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!"

because they can no longer die. Being children of the Resurrection, they are like angels; indeed, they are children of God.

"But even Moshe showed that the dead are raised; for in the passage about the bush, he calls Adonai ‘the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya‘akov.'

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living — to him all are alive."

In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you are to know that the Kingdom of God is near!

For I tell you, it is certain that I will not celebrate it again until it is given its full meaning in the Kingdom of God."

For I tell you that from now on, I will not drink the ‘fruit of the vine' until the Kingdom of God comes."