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who will not receive a hundred times over, now, in the ‘olam hazeh, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands — with persecutions! — and in the ‘olam haba, eternal life.

"Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line .

There were seven brothers. The first one took a wife, and when he died, he left no children.

Then the second one took her and died without leaving children, and the third likewise,

and none of the seven left children. Last of all, the woman also died.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death;

But they had no children, because Elisheva was barren; and they were both well along in years.

He will go out ahead of Adonai in the spirit and power of Eliyahu to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for Adonai a people prepared."

But love your enemies, do good, and lend expecting nothing back! Your reward will be great, and you will be children of Ha‘Elyon; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

They are like children sitting in the marketplaces, calling to one another, ‘We made happy music, but you wouldn't dance! We made sad music, but you wouldn't cry!'

Now the one inside may answer, ‘Don't bother me! The door is already shut, my children are with me in bed — I can't get up to give you anything!'

So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will the Father keep giving the Ruach HaKodesh from heaven to those who keep asking him!"

"Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets! You stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid.

However, Yeshua called the children to him and said, "Let the children come to me, and stop hindering them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Yeshua answered them, "Yes! I tell you that everyone who has left house, wife, brothers, parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

and dash you to the ground, you and your children within your walls, leaving not one stone standing on another — and all because you did not recognize your opportunity when God offered it!"

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.

because they can no longer die. Being children of the Resurrection, they are like angels; indeed, they are children of God.