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bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

"If someone asks you for something, give it to him; if someone takes what belongs to you, don't demand it back.

But love your enemies, do good, and lend expecting nothing back! Your reward will be great, and you will be children of Ha‘Elyon; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Give, and you will receive gifts — the full measure, compacted, shaken together and overflowing, will be put right in your lap. For the measure with which you measure out will be used to measure back to you!"

"For no good tree produces bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit.

The good person produces good things from the store of good in his heart, while the evil person produces evil things from the store of evil in his heart. For his mouth speaks what overflows from his heart.

for he loves our people — in fact, he built the synagogue for us!"

For I too am a man set under authority. I have soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!' and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!' and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this!' and he does it."

As he approached the town gate, a dead man was being carried out for burial. His mother was a widow, this had been her only son, and a sizeable crowd from the town was with her.

When the Lord saw her, he felt compassion for her and said to her, "Don't cry."

and sent them to the Lord to ask, "Are you the one who is to come? Or should we look for someone else?"

When the men came to him, they said, "Yochanan the Immerser has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come? Or should we keep looking — for someone else?'"

but the P'rushim and the Torah-teachers, by not letting themselves be immersed by him, nullified for themselves God's plan.

For Yochanan has come not eating bread and not drinking wine; and you say, ‘He has a demon!'

Shim‘on answered, "I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt." "Your judgment is right," Yeshua said to him.

Then, turning to the woman, he said to Shim‘on, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house — you didn't give me water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair!

The ones on rock are those who, when they hear the word, accept it with joy; but these have no root — they go on trusting for awhile; but when a time of testing comes, they apostatize.

As for what fell in the midst of thorns these are the ones who hear; but as they go along, worries and wealth and life's gratifications crowd in and choke them, so that their fruit never matures.

For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nothing is covered up that will not be known and come out into the open.

Pay attention, then, to how you hear! For anyone who has something will be given more; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he seems to have will be taken away."