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When his parents saw him, they were shocked; and his mother said to him, "Son! Why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been terribly worried looking for you!"

He said to them, "Why did you have to look for me? Didn't you know that I had to be concerning myself with my Father's affairs?"

It was just as had been written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Yesha‘yahu, " The voice of someone crying out: ‘In the desert prepare the way for Adonai ! Make straight paths for him!

If you have really turned from your sins, produce fruit that will prove it! And don't start saying to yourselves, ‘Avraham is our father'! For I tell you that God can raise up for Avraham sons from these stones!

But Yochanan also denounced Herod the regional governor for taking as his own wife Herodias, the wife of his brother, and for all the other wicked things Herod had done;

for forty days of testing by the Adversary. During that time he ate nothing, and afterwards he was hungry.

For the Tanakh says, ‘He will order his angels to be responsible for you and to protect you.

"The Spirit of Adonai is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,

It's true, I'm telling you — when Eliyahu was in Isra'el, and the sky was sealed off for three-and-a-half years, so that all the Land suffered a severe famine, there were many widows;

Leaving the synagogue, he went to Shim‘on's house. Shim‘on's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him to do something for her.

When day had come, he left and went away to a lonely spot. The people looked for him, came to him and would have kept him from leaving them.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Shim‘on, "Put out into deep water, and let down your nets for a catch."

For astonishment had seized him and everyone with him at the catch of fish they had taken,

Then Yeshua warned him not to tell anyone. "Instead, as a testimony to the people, go straight to the cohen and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moshe commanded."

He looked at his talmidim and said: "How blessed are you poor! for the Kingdom of God is yours.

"How blessed are you who are hungry! for you will be filled. "How blessed are you who are crying now! for you will laugh.

Be glad when that happens; yes, dance for joy! because in heaven your reward is great. For that is just how their fathers treated the prophets.

"But woe to you who are rich, for you have already had all the comfort you will get!

"Woe to you who are full now, for you will go hungry! "Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and cry!

"Woe to you when people speak well of you, for that is just how their fathers treated the false prophets!