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But when the P'rushim heard of it, they said, "It is only by Ba‘al-Zibbul" — the ruler of the demons — "that this man drives out demons."

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

Because of this, I tell you that people will be forgiven any sin and blasphemy, but blaspheming the Ruach HaKodesh will not be forgiven.

One can say something against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but whoever keeps on speaking against the Ruach HaKodesh will never be forgiven, neither in the ‘olam hazeh nor in the ‘olam haba.

He replied, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign? No! None will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Yonah.

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.

The Queen of the South will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, but what is here now is greater than Shlomo.

But to the one who had informed him he replied, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"

but such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there while the crowd stood on the shore.

but when the sun had risen, the young plants were scorched; and since their roots were not deep, they dried up.

But others fell into rich soil and produced grain, a hundred or sixty or thirty times as much as had been sown.

He answered, "Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it has not been given to them.

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

That is, in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Yesha‘yahu which says, ‘ You will keep on hearing but never understand, and keep on seeing but never perceive,

But you, how blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear!

Yes indeed! I tell you that many a prophet and many a tzaddik longed to see the things you are seeing but did not see them, and to hear the things you are hearing but did not hear them.

Whoever hears the message about the Kingdom, but doesn't understand it, is like the seed sown along the path — the Evil One comes and seizes what was sown in his heart.

but has no root in himself. So he stays on for a while; but as soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, he immediately falls away.

Now the seed sown among thorns stands for someone who hears the message, but it is choked by the worries of the world and the deceitful glamor of wealth, so that it produces nothing.

but while people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, then went away.