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Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for a worker deserves his wages — don't move about from house to house.

But whenever you enter a town and they don't make you welcome, go out into its streets and say,

"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.

Taking up the question, Yeshua said: "A man was going down from Yerushalayim to Yericho when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him naked and beat him up, then went off, leaving him half dead.

Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they come and live there — so that in the end the person is worse off than he was before."

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned to God from their sins when Yonah preached, and what is here now is greater than Yonah.

Yeshua said, "Woe to you Torah experts too! You load people down with burdens they can hardly bear, and you won't lift a finger to help them!

Therefore the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and emissaries; they will kill some and persecute others';

"When they bring you before the synagogues and the ruling powers and the authorities, don't worry about how you will defend yourself or what you will say;

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will die! And the things you prepared — whose will they be?'

Think about the wild irises, and how they grow. They neither work nor spin thread; yet, I tell you, not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

like people waiting for their master's return after a wedding feast; so that when he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him without delay.

One Shabbat Yeshua went to eat in the home of one of the leading P'rushim, and they were watching him closely.

But they said nothing. So, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.

And to these things they could give no answer.

Yeshua also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, brothers, relatives or rich neighbors; for they may well invite you in return, and that will be your repayment.

But they responded with a chorus of excuses. The first said to him, ‘I've just bought a field, and I have to go out and see it. Please accept my apologies.'

and the P'rushim and Torah-teachers kept grumbling. "This fellow," they said, "welcomes sinners — he even eats with them!"

For this son of mine was dead, but now he's alive again! He was lost, but now he has been found!' And they began celebrating.

The P'rushim heard all this, and since they were money-lovers, they ridiculed him.