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For God hath said: Honor thy father, and thy mother; and he that revileth his father or his mother, shall be put to death.

And [fn] ye make void the word of God, for the sake of your tradition.

So that the multitudes were amazed, when they saw the dumb speaking, and the maimed made whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they praised the God of Israel.

Simon Cephas answered and said: Thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

But he turned, and said to Cephas: Get thee behind me, Satan: Thou art a stumbling block to me; for thou thinkest not the things of God, but the things of men.

Wherefore they were not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath united, let not man sunder.

And he said to him: Why callest thou me good? There is none good, except one, [fn] God. But if thou wouldst enter into life, keep the commandments.

And again, I say to you: It is easier for a camel to enter the aperture of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God

Jesus looked on them, and said to them: With men this is not practicable, but with God every thing is practicable.

And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and expelled all them that bought and sold in the temple, and overset the counters of the money-brokers, and the seats of them that sold doves.

Which of these two performed the pleasure of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you That publicans and harlots go before you into the kingdom of God.

Therefore I say to you, That the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a people that will yield fruits.

And they sent to him their disciples, with domestics of Herod, and said to him: Teacher, we know that thou art veracious, and teachest the way of God with truth, regardless of man, for thou hast no respect of persons.

They say, Caesar's. He saith to them: Give then Caesar's things to Caesar, and God's things to God.

Jesus answered, and said to them: Ye do err, from not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

For in the resurrection of the dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels of God in heaven.

But as to the resurrection of the dead,: have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, who said:

I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob? Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy mind.

And he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth by throne of God, and by him that sitteth on it.