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I tell you, this man went down to his home right with God rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."

Instantly he received his sight and began following him, glorifying God; and when all the people saw it, they too praised God.

Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten manim [a maneh is about three months' wages] and said to them, ‘Do business with this while I'm away.'

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don't want this man to rule over us.'

"However, he returned, having been made king, and sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned in his business dealings.

but they couldn't find any way of doing it, because all the people were hanging onto his every word.

When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to receive his share of the crop from the vineyard; but the tenants beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.

They were unable to trap him by anything he said publicly; indeed, amazed at his answer, they fell silent.

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 .

Within the hearing of all the people, Yeshua said to his talmidim,

Yeshua spent his days at the Temple, teaching; while at night he went out and stayed on the hill called the Mount of Olives.

The Son of Man is going to his death according to God's plan, but woe to that man by whom he is being betrayed!"

and in great anguish he prayed more intensely, so that his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

When his followers saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, should we use our swords?"

One of them struck at the slave of the cohen hagadol and cut off his right ear.

They said, "Why do we need additional testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

But they persisted. "He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Y'hudah — he started in the Galil, and now he's here!"

Herod and his soldiers treated Yeshua with contempt and made fun of him. Then, dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.

As the Roman soldiers led Yeshua away, they grabbed hold of a man from Cyrene named Shim‘on, who was on his way in from the country. They put the execution-stake on his back and made him carry it behind Yeshua.

Yeshua said, "Father, forgive them; they don't understand what they are doing." They divided up his clothes by throwing dice .