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But Avraham said, ‘They have Moshe and the Prophets; they should listen to them.'

But he replied, ‘If they won't listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won't be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!'"

On seeing them, he said, "Go and let the cohanim examine you!" And as they went, they were cleansed.

Then Yeshua told his talmidim a parable, in order to impress on them that they must always keep praying and not lose heart.

However, they understood none of this; its meaning had been hidden from them, and they had no idea what he was talking about.

and they told him, "Yeshua from Natzeret is passing by."

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.

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don't want this man to rule over us.'

and they said, "Because the Lord needs it."

They brought it to Yeshua; and, throwing their robes on the colt, they put Yeshua on it.

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:

He sent another servant; they beat him too, insulted him and sent him away empty-handed.

He sent yet a third; this one they wounded and threw out.

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!'

And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. "Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

He will come and put an end to those tenants and give the vineyard to others!" When the people heard this, they said, "Heaven forbid!"

The Torah-teachers and the head cohanim would have seized him at that very moment, because they knew that he had aimed this parable at them, but they were afraid of the people.

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.

They put to him this sh'eilah: "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach straightforwardly, showing no partiality but really teaching what God's way is.