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"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I served you, and I never disobeyed a mitzvah of yours, and you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

He said also to his talmidim, "There was a certain rich man, who had a manager. The same was accused to him of wasting his possessions.

Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

"His lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely, for the sons of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the sons of the light.

The law and the prophets were until Yochanan. From that time the Good News of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

A certain beggar, named El'azar, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

In She'ol, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Avraham far off, and El'azar at his bosom.

He cried and said, 'Father Avraham, have mercy on me, and send El'azar, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'

It would be better for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

It happened as he was on his way to Yerushalayim, that he was passing along the borders of Shomron and the Galil.

He fell on his face at his feet, giving him thanks. He was a Shomroni.

for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

Whoever seeks to gain his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

Won't God avenge his elect, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?