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He has with him his winnowing fork to clear out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the straw with unquenchable fire!"

But Yochanan also denounced Herod the regional governor for taking as his own wife Herodias, the wife of his brother, and for all the other wicked things Herod had done;

Yeshua was about thirty years old when he began his public ministry. It was supposed that he was a son of Yosef who was of Eli,

For the Tanakh says, ‘He will order his angels to be responsible for you and to protect you.

When the Adversary had ended all his testings, he let him alone until an opportune time.

Everyone was speaking well of him and marvelling that such appealing words were coming from his mouth. They were even asking, "Can this be Yosef's son?"

Yes!" he said, "I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home town.

They were amazed at the way he taught, because his word carried the ring of authority.

After sunset, all those who had people sick with various diseases brought them to Yeshua, and he put his hands on each one of them and healed them;

Once, when Yeshua was in one of the towns, there came a man completely covered with tzara‘at. On seeing Yeshua, he fell on his face and begged him, "Sir, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Yeshua reached out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing! Be cleansed!" Immediately the tzara‘at left him.

but they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd. So they went up onto the roof and lowered him on his mattress through the tiles into the middle of the gathering, right in front of Yeshua.

Later Yeshua went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting in his tax-collection booth; and he said to him, "Follow me!"

Levi gave a banquet at his house in Yeshua's honor, and there was a large group of tax-collectors and others at the table with them.

The P'rushim and their Torah-teachers protested indignantly against his talmidim, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners?"

One Shabbat, while Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields, his talmidim began plucking the heads of grain, rubbing them between their hands and eating the seeds.

Yeshua answered them, "Haven't you ever read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Then, after looking around at all of them, he said to the man, "Hold out your hand." As he held it out, his hand was restored.

When day came, he called his talmidim and chose from among them twelve to be known as emissaries:

Shim‘on, whom he named Kefa; Andrew, his brother; Ya‘akov; Yochanan; Philip; Bar-Talmai;