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They said to him, "Then why did Moshe give the commandment that a man should hand his wife a get and divorce her?"

Now what I say to you is that whoever divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery!"

Then children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray for them, but the talmidim rebuked the people bringing them.

Then, after laying his hands on them, he went on his way.

Then Yeshua said to his talmidim, "Yes. I tell you that it will be very hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Yeshua said to them, "Yes. I tell you that in the regenerated world, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Isra'el.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who went out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard.

After agreeing with the workers on a wage of one denarius, [the standard daily wage,] he sent them off to his vineyard.

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and ending with the first.'

For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve — and to give his life as a ransom for many."

The next morning, on his way back to the city, he felt hungry.

He answered, ‘I don't want to'; but later he changed his mind and went.

The father went to his other son and said the same thing. This one answered, ‘I will, sir'; but he didn't go.

Which of the two did what his father wanted?" "The first," they replied. "That's right!" Yeshua said to them. "I tell you that the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you!

When harvest-time came, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the crop.

But the tenants seized his servants — this one they beat up, that one they killed, another they stoned.

Finally, he sent them his son, saying, ‘My son they will respect.'

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance!'

They answered him, "He will viciously destroy those vicious men and rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop when it's due."

As the head cohanim and the P'rushim listened to his stories, they saw that he was speaking about them.