Study Desk

"So, after making appointments with each of his employer's debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my boss?'

"And the employer of this dishonest manager applauded him for acting so shrewdly! For the worldly have more sekhel than those who have received the light — in dealing with their own kind of people!

"Now what I say to you is this: use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it gives out, you may be welcomed into the eternal home.

So if you haven't been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who is going to trust you with the real thing?

Yet that isn't all: between you and us a deep rift has been established, so that those who would like to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'

where I have five brothers, to warn them; so that they may be spared having to come to this place of torment too.'

So he ran on ahead and climbed a fig tree in order to see him, for Yeshua was about to pass that way.

To him the master said, ‘You wicked servant! I will judge you by your own words! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, taking out what I didn't put in and harvesting what I didn't plant?

So they answered, "We don't know where it came from."

But when the tenants saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir; let's kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours!'

So they kept a close watch on the situation. They sent spies who hypocritically represented themselves as righteous, so that they might seize hold of something Yeshua said, as an excuse to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

David thus calls him ‘Lord.' So how can he be David's son?"

They asked him, "Rabbi, if this is so, when will these events take place? And what sign will show that they are about to happen?"

So make up your minds not to worry, rehearsing your defense beforehand;

Yeshua sent Kefa and Yochanan, instructing them, "Go and prepare our Seder, so we can eat."

and he said to them, "I have really wanted so much to celebrate this Seder with you before I die!

But not so with you! On the contrary, let the greater among you become like the younger, and one who rules like one who serves.

Just as my Father gave me the right to rule, so I give you an appointment,

and in great anguish he prayed more intensely, so that his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Then Yeshua said to the head cohanim, the officers of the Temple guard and the elders who had come to seize him, "So you came out just as you would to the leader of a rebellion, with swords and clubs?