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Then they understood — they were to guard themselves not from yeast for bread but from the teaching of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim.

As they watched, he began to change form — his face shone like the sun, and his clothing became as white as light.

Then they looked and saw Moshe and Eliyahu speaking with him.

So they opened their eyes, looked up and saw only Yeshua by himself.

on the other hand, I tell you that Eliyahu has come already, and people did not recognize him but did whatever they pleased to him. In the same way, the Son of Man too is about to suffer at their hands."

who will put him to death, and on the third day he will be raised." And they were filled with sadness.

When they came to K'far-Nachum, the collectors of the half-shekel came to Kefa and said, "Doesn't your rabbi pay the Temple tax?"

"Of course he does," said Kefa. When he arrived home, Yeshua spoke first. "Shim‘on, what's your opinion? The kings of the earth — from whom do they collect duties and taxes? From their sons or from others?"

When the other servants saw what had happened, they were extremely distressed; and they went and told their master everything that had taken place.

They said to him, "Then why did Moshe give the commandment that a man should hand his wife a get and divorce her?"

For there are different reasons why men do not marry — some because they were born without the desire, some because they have been castrated, and some because they have renounced marriage for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever can grasp this, let him do so."

and said to them, ‘You go to the vineyard too — I'll pay you a fair wage.' So they went.

As Yeshua was going up to Yerushalayim, he took the twelve talmidim aside by themselves and said to them, as they went on their way,

"We are now going up to Yerushalayim, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the head cohanim and Torah-teachers. They will sentence him to death

The crowd scolded them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "Lord! Son of David! Have pity on us!"

Filled with tenderness, Yeshua touched their eyes; and instantly they received their sight and followed him.

They brought the donkey and the colt and put their robes on them, and Yeshua sat on them.

But when the head cohanim and Torah-teachers saw the wonderful things he was doing, and the children crying out in the Temple, " Please deliver us! " to the Son of David, they were furious.

They said to him, "Do you hear what they're saying?" Yeshua replied, "Of course! Haven't you ever read, ‘From the mouth of children and infants you have prepared praise for yourself' ?"

The talmidim saw this and were amazed. "How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?" they asked.