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But Yeshua looked searchingly at them and said, "Then what is this which is written in the Tanakh, ‘The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'?

Whoever falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; but if it falls on him, he will be crushed to powder!"

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.

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.

But he, spotting their craftiness, said to them,

and put to him a sh'eilah: "Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line .

and third took her, and likewise all seven, but they all died without leaving children.

but those judged worthy of the age to come, and of resurrection from the dead, do not get married,

"But even Moshe showed that the dead are raised; for in the passage about the bush, he calls Adonai ‘the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya‘akov.'

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living — to him all are alive."

But he said to them, "How is it that people say the Messiah is David's son?"

For they, out of their wealth, have contributed money they could easily spare; but she, out of her poverty, has given all she had to live on."

And when you hear of wars and revolutions, don't panic. For these things must happen first, but the end will not follow immediately."

But before all this, they will arrest you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons; and you will be brought before kings and governors. This will all be on account of me,

but it will prove an opportunity for you to bear witness.

But not a hair of your head will be lost.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.

"But keep watch on yourselves, or your hearts will become dulled by carousing, drunkenness and the worries of everyday living, and that Day will be sprung upon you suddenly like a trap!

But the festival of Matzah, known as Pesach, was approaching;

"But look! The person who is betraying me is here at the table with me!