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Speaking to the talmidim, Yeshua said: "There was a wealthy man who employed a general manager. Charges were brought to him that his manager was squandering his resources.

"So, after making appointments with each of his employer's debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my boss?'

Every man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and a man who marries a woman divorced by her husband commits adultery.

"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in the most expensive clothing and spent his days in magnificent luxury.

At his gate had been laid a beggar named El‘azar who was covered with sores.

He would have been glad to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table; but instead, even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

"In Sh'ol, where he was in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Avraham far away with El‘azar at his side.

He called out, ‘Father Avraham, take pity on me, and send El‘azar just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, because I'm in agony in this fire!'

However, Avraham said, ‘Son, remember that when you were alive, you got the good things while he got the bad; but now he gets his consolation here, while you are the one in agony.

Yeshua said to his talmidim, "It is impossible that snares will not be set. But woe to the person who sets them!

It would be to his advantage that he have a millstone hung around his neck and he be thrown into the sea, rather than that he ensnare one of these little ones.

On his way to Yerushalayim, Yeshua passed along the border country between Shomron and the Galil.

and fell on his face at Yeshua's feet to thank him. Now he was from Shomron.

Then he said to his talmidim, "The time is coming when you will long to see even one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

because the Son of Man in his day will be like lightning that flashes and lights up the sky from one horizon to the other.

On that day, if someone is on the roof with his belongings in his house, he must not go down to take them away. Similarly, if someone is in the field, he must not turn back —

Whoever aims at preserving his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will stay alive.

Then Yeshua told his talmidim a parable, in order to impress on them that they must always keep praying and not lose heart.

Now won't God grant justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Is he delaying long over them?

But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God! Have mercy on me, sinner that I am!'