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But to sit on my right and on my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared."

For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve — and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Yeshua stopped and said, "Call him over!" They called to the blind man, "Courage! Get up! He's calling for you!"

"What do you want me to do for you?" asked Yeshua. The blind man said to him, "Rabbi, let me be able to see again."

Spotting in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came up to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it wasn't fig season.

Then, as he taught them, he said, "Isn't it written in the Tanakh, My house will be called a house of prayer for all the Goyim But you have made it into a den of robbers! "

Yes! I tell you that whoever does not doubt in his heart but trusts that what he says will happen can say to this mountain, ‘Go and throw yourself into the sea!' and it will be done for him.

Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, trust that you are receiving it, and it will be yours.

But if we say, ‘From a human source, . . . '" — they were afraid of the people, for they all regarded Yochanan as a genuine prophet.

Yeshua began speaking to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; then he rented it to tenant-farmers and left.

They set about to arrest him, for they recognized that he had told the parable with reference to themselves. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.

"Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line .

In the Resurrection, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife."

For when people rise from the dead, neither men nor women marry — they are like angels in heaven.

And as for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moshe, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘ I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya‘akov '?

As he taught them, he said, "Watch out for the kind of Torah-teachers who like to walk around in robes and be greeted deferentially in the marketplaces,

For all of them, out of their wealth, have contributed money they can easily spare; but she, out of her poverty, has given everything she had to live on."

For peoples will fight each other, and nations will fight each other, there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the ‘birth pains.'

Now when they arrest you and bring you to trial, don't worry beforehand about what to say. Rather, say whatever is given you when the time comes; for it will not be just you speaking, but the Ruach HaKodesh.

"Now when you see the abomination that causes devastation standing where it ought not to be" (let the reader understand the allusion), "that will be the time for those in Y'hudah to escape to the hills.