1. It came to pass; when Yeshuwa' finished teaching his twelve disciples; that he passed on from there after he commanded them to teach and reprove in their cities.
2. Yochanon; when he was in prison; heard of the work of Yeshuwa' and sent two of his disciples
3. saying to him: 'Are you the One who is to come [Deut 18:18] or should we expect another?'
4. Yeshuwa' answered them: "Go and tell Yochanon that which you have seen and that which you have heard":
5. "the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are revived, and the poor are acquitted" [Isaiah 35:4-6].
6. "Happy is the one who is not in any doubt about me".
7. It came to pass as they were going that Yeshuwa' began to speak to the crowds about Yochanon: "You went out into the wilderness to see what? A reed cast about by the wind"?
8. "Or what did you go out to see? Do you think that Yochanon was a man clothed in noble garments? Behold those who wear noble garments are in kings houses".
9. "If so, what did you go out to see, a prophet? Truly I say to you that this one is greater than a prophet".
10. "This is he about whom it is written: 'Behold I am sending my messenger and he will prepare the Way before Me' [Malachi 3:1]".
11. Again Yeshuwa'said to his disciples: "Truly I say to you, among all those born of women none has arisen greater than Yochanon the Immerser".
12. "From his days until now 'The Kingdom of Heaven' has been made to suffer and senseless persons have been tearing it apart".
13. "For all the prophets and the law spoke concerning Yochanon"
14. "If you wish to receive it, he is Eliyah who is going to come".
15. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear".
16. Again Yeshuwa' said: "I will liken this generation to children who sit in the market place calling to one another,"
17. "saying: 'We sang to you and you did not dance; we wailed to you and you did not weep'".
18. "Because Yochanon came neither eating and drinking and they say concerning him:'He is possessed of demons'".
19. "But the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say concerning him: 'He is a glutton, a drunkard, and a friend to violent men and sinners'. So fools judge the wise".
20. Then Yeshuwa' began to curse the cities in which his signs were done, for they did not turn in repentance.
21. "Woe to you Corozim and woe to you Beth Saida, for if in Tyre and Sodom the signs had been done which were done in you, they would have turned in repentance at that time in sack cloth and ashes".
22. "Truly I say to you, it shall be easier for Tyre and Sodom than for you".
23. "You Capernaum, will you ascend to Heaven? From there you will be brought down. Because if in Sodom, the signs which were done in you had been done, perhaps she would have remained. Unto Sheol you will be brought down"
24. "Truly I say to you that it shall be easier for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you".
25. At that time Yeshuwa' raised himself up and said: "Be praised my Father, Creator of the heavens and the earth [Genesis 1:1], because you have hidden these words from the learned and the crafty and have revealed them to the humble".
26. "Truly this is because it was upright before You, my Father".
27. "All has been given to me from my Father [Deuteronomy 18:18]. There is none who knows the Son, but the Father alone, and the Father no one knows, but the Son and to whomever the Son wishes to reveal Him"
28. "Come unto me all you who are weary and who are enduring labour, and I will help you to carry your yoke"
29. "Take my yoke as your yoke and learn of me that I am humble and good and pure of heart and you will find rest for your souls,
30. "Because my yoke is soft and my burden light"

CHAPTER TWELVE

1. At that time Yeshuwa' passed through the standing grain on the Shabbat day, and his disciples, being hungry, began to pluck the ears and to crush them between their hands and to eat them.
2. The Pharisees saw it and said to him: 'Look! your disciples are doing that which is not proper to do on the Shabbat day'.
3. Yeshuwa' answered them: "Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry and his men,"
4. "in the house of Elohiym when they ate from the bread of the Presence, which is not to be eaten except by the priests alone?" [1 Samuel 21:6,7].
5. "Also in the Torah have you not read that the priests in the temple sometimes profane the Shabbats" [Ezekiel 44:15-17] and are without sin?
6. "Truly I say to you that greater than the temple is he from among us".
7. "If you had known what this is: 'I desire kindness and not sacrifice' [Hosea 6:6], you would not have convicted the innocent"
8. "For the son of man (Isaiah 56:2) is master of the Shabbat".
9. It came to pass at the end of those days that Yeshuwa' passed on from there and entered into their Synagogue.
10. A man was there with a withered hand who said to him: "I was a stone mason, earning my living with my hands. I beg you, Yeshuwa', to give me back my health, lest I beg for food in shame". So they asked him saying: 'Is it permissable to heal him on the Shabbat?'
11. He said to them: "Who among you has a sheep that falls into a pit on the Shabbat day and does not raise it up?"
12. "So much the more precious is a man than that. Therefore; it is permissable and for man to do good on the Shabbat"
13. Then he said to the man: "Stretch out your hand". He stretched out his hand and it was restored as the other.
14. Then the Pharisees took counsel and plotted to put him to death.
15. It came to pass after this that Yeshuwa' knew it; so he turned aside from there. Many sick followed him and he healed all of them.
16. He commanded them saying not to reveal him,
17 in order to fulfil what was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet:
18. "Behold My servant [Isaiah 53:11) whom I uphold, My Chosen One in whom my soul is delighted: I have put My spirit upon him, and he will declare justice to the nations.
19. "He will not cry out nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street".
20. "A crushed reed he will not break and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will establish justice according to the truth; he will not fail or be discouraged until he establishes justice in the earth"
21. "and the Gentiles shall wait for his Torah (Teaching]" [Isaiah 42:1-4].
22. Then there was brought to him a blind and dumb man who was demon possessed; he healed him. The crowds saw
23. and were amazed and said: 'Is this not the Son of David'?
24. The Pharisees were quick to hear and said: 'This one does not cast out demons except by Baalzebub, ba'al of demons'
25. Yeshuwa' knew their thoughts and said to them in a parable: "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and so every city or house in which is division, is fallen, is not standing"
26. "If Satan casts out another satan, there is division among them; how is his kingdom standing?
27. "If I cast out demons by Baalzebub, why do your sons not cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges"
28. "But if I cast out demons by the spirit of Elohiym [Exodus 31:3], truly the end of [Satan's] kingdom has come"
29. "How shall a man be able to enter the house of the strong man to take his goods unless he binds him first? Then he shall plunder his house".
30. "Whoever is not with me is against me. Whoever does not join himself to me denies me"
31. "Therefore I say to you that every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven the sons of men, but blasphemy of the spirit will not be forgiven"
32. "Everyone who says a word against The Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But everyone who says a word against the spirit of The Holy One [Isaiah 42:1], it will not be forgiven him, either in this world, or in the world to come"
33. "Determine the tree good according to good fruit, or the tree bad according to bad fruit; because the truth is; from the fruit the tree will be known"
34. "Family of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil?. Surely the mouth opens, the heart speaks"
35. "A good man from the treasure of a good heart brings forth good; an evil man from the treasure of an evil heart brings forth evil"
36. "I say to you that for all the words which a man shall speak he will be obliged to give an account on the day of judgment".
37. "According to your words you will be judged and according to your deeds you will be convicted".
38. At that time, some of the Pharisees and scribes came to Yeshuwa' saying: We wish to see a sign from Heaven by you.
39. He said to them: "An evil and ungodly generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Yonah the Prophet.
40. "For as he was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the bosom of the earth for three days and three nights".
41. "The men of Ninevah will rise up in judgement with this generation and shall condemn it, because they turned in repentance at the words of Yonah and I am greater than Yonah"
42. "The queen of Sheba, will rise up in judgement with this generation and shall condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold! I am greater than Solomon"
43. "When the unclean spirit goes out from the man, he goes through waterless places seeking rest, but does not find it"
44. "Then he says: 'I will return to my house from which I came out, and he goes and finds it empty, safe and ready"
45. "Then he takes seven spirits more evil than himself, and they go with him and dwell there, and the latter state of the man is worse than his first. Thus it will be to this evil generation".
46. While he was speaking to all the crowds, behold his [surrogate] mother and his brothers were standing outside seeking him to speak with him.
47. A man said to him: 'Look! your mother and your brothers are seeking to see you'
48. He answered the one who spoke to him: "Who are my brothers and who is my mother?"
49. He stretched out his hands to his disciples and said: "These are my mother and brothers"
50."Everyone who does the will of my Father Who is in Heaven, is my brothers, my sisters, and my mother."

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1. On that day Yeshuwa' went out of the house and sat on the shore of the sea.
2. Crowds joined themselves to him until he needed to enter a boat; the whole crowd was standing on the shore.
3. He spoke to them many things in parables and said to them: "A man went forth from his house in the morning to sow his seed."
4. "In his sowing some of it fell on the road, and the birds [Matthew 13:32] ate it."
5. "Some of it fell among rocks where there was no density of soil, and when it sprang up it withered because there was not much soil there."
6. "When the sun above it became warm, it was burned and dried up because it had no root."
7. "Some of it fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew and darkened it."
8. "Some of it fell on good ground and made fruit and produced, the first a hundredfold, the second sixty and the third thirty."
9. "Whoever has ears to hear let him hear"
10. Then his disciples drew near to him and his disciples said to him: 'Why do you speak in parables?'
11. He said: "To you it has been given to know 'the Kingdom of Heaven' but not to them (Matthew 21:43)."
12. "Whoever has, it will be given to him again, but whoever has nothing, that which he thinks he has will be taken from him"
13. "For this I speak in parables, because they see but do not see, hear but do not hear,"
14. "in order to fulfil what was said through Isaiah the Prophet: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but understand not."
15. "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed." [Isaiah 6:9,10]
16. "Happy are your eyes that see and your ears that hear."
17. "Truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
18. "But hear you the parable of the sower."
19. "The Sower is The Son of Man, and the seed which fell on the road is every one who hears 'The Kingdom of Heaven' and does not understand it. Satan comes and snatches away from his heart everything which was sown in it. This is the seed which fell on the road."
20. "That which fell among the rocks is the one who hears the word of The Mighty One and receives it immediately with joy."
21. "But he is without root and is confused and when a little trouble and tribulation [Revelation 7:14] come to them Satan causes [them] to forget from their heart."
22. "That which fell among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word and in his desire to gather wealth, Satan causes him to forget the word of The Mighty One and he makes no fruit."
23. "That which fell into the good earth is the one who hears the word and understands it and makes fruit, that is, from good works. He brings forth from the first a hundred, from the second sixty, and from the third thirty. As for the hundred, this is the one purified of heart and sanctified of body. As for the sixty, this is the one separated from women. As for the thirty, this is the one sanctified in matrimony, in body and in heart."
24. He set before them another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sows good seed in his field."
25. "It came to pass when the men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares over the wheat, and he went away."
26. "It came to pass when the herb grew up to make fruit, he saw the tares".
27. "The servants of the landowner drew near to him and said to him; 'Master, did you not sow good seed, then where did the tares come from?'"
28. "He said to them, 'My enemy did this! His servants said to him: 'We will uproot the tares'"
29. "He said to them: 'No, lest you uproot the wheat'"
30. "But let them remain together and grow up until the harvest and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: 'Gather the tares first and bind them into separate groups for burning and the wheat put into the granary'"
31. He set before them another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard which a man takes and sows in the field."
32. "It is smaller than all garden herbs, but when it grows up it is greater than all herbs and is made into a great tree until the birds of the air [Matthew 13:4, 25] crept into [Jude 1:4] its branches."
33. He spoke to them another parable. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven which a woman puts into three measures of flour and it leavens all of it".
34. All of these parables Yeshuwa' spoke to the crowds and without a parable he did not speak to them,
35. to fulfil what was said according to the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter dark sayings, from days of old" [Psalm 78:2].
36. Then Yeshuwa' was parted from the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to him and asked him to explain for them the parable of the tares.
37. He answered them and said to them: "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
38. "the field is this world, the good fruits are the righteous. The tares are the ungodly"
39. "and the enemy who sowed them is Satan. The standing grain at the end is the world to come, and the reapers are the messengers."
40. "As the reapers gather the tares to burn, so will it be at the end of the days."
41. "The Son of Man will send His messengers to uproot from his Kingdom all the ungodly, and all who do iniquity,"
42. "and they will cast them into the pyre of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
43. "Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear".
44. Again Yeshuwa' said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who finds a treasure which had been hidden and in gladness over the value he sells all which he has and buys the field for himself".
45. "Again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain merchant seeking precious pearls."
46. "When he finds one of great value, he sells all which he has and buys it"
47. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net in the midst of the sea in which are gathered all kinds of fish."
48. "When it is full, they draw it out on the shore, and the fishermen go forth and choose the good for their vessels and the bad they cast away."
49. "Thus it will be at the end of days; the messengers will go forth and separate the ungodly from the midst of the righteous."
50. "Then they shall cast them into the pyre of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth"
51. He said to them: "Have you understood this?" They said :'Yes'.
52. And Yeshuwa' said to them, "Therefore every wise man in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain father of children, who brings forth from his treasure things new and old."
53. It came to pass after this, when Yeshuwa' finished these words, he passed on from there.
54. He came into his own country and was teaching the people in the synagogues. The Pharisees were amazed and said in their heart: 'From where did the wisdom and power to do these deeds come to this one?'
55. 'Is this not the son of the smith and Miriam? Do you not know all these: his [surrogate] mother Miriam, his three brothers; Yhowceph, Shimeon and Yehudah,'
56. 'and his sisters? Do you not know all these who are with us?. From where did all these things come to this one?'
57. So they were confused about him. Yeshuwa' answered them: "A prophet is not without honour except in his own land, city and house"
58. Then he did not wish to do there any sign because of their little belief.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1. At that time Herod the Tetrarch heard reports about Yeshuwa'.
2. He said to his servants: 'Behold I believe that Yochanon the Immerser is doing these miracles'.
3. This happened because Herod had seized Yochanon in those days and had bound him in prison because he was reproving him that he should not take Herodias for a wife because she was the wife of his brother.
4. Yochanon was saying to him: "She is not permissable to you".
5. Then behold Herod wished to kill him, but he feared the people who believed that Yochanon was a prophet among them.
6. On the feast of Herod's birthday, he called the nobles of his kingdom to eat with him, and while they were eating, his daughter danced among them and it was pleasing to Herod.
7. He swore to give her whatever she asked from him.
8. The girl, being instructed by her mother, asked for the head of Yochanon the Immerser in a bowl.
9. The king was very sad because of the oath which he had made before those invited. But he commanded to do so
10. and sent to kill Yochanon in prison.
11. They brought the head of Yochanon in a bowl and gave it to the girl and the girl gave it to her mother.
12. Then the disciples of Yochanon came and took the body and buried it and the disciples told the matter to Yeshuwa'.
13. When Yeshuwa' heard it, he departed from there in a boat and went into the wilderness of Yudea. When the crowds heard they followed him from all the cities.
14. When they came out he saw behind him a numerous people; so he extended kindness to them and healed all their diseases.
15. At evening time his disciples came to him and said to him: 'This place is limited and the time is advancing. Let the crowds go into the towns that they might buy food for themselves'.
16. Yeshuwa' answered: "They have no need to go; give them to eat".
17. They answered: 'We have nothing here except five loaves and two fish'.
18. He said to them: "Bring them to me".
19. Then he commanded that the people should sit on the grass. When they sat he took the five loaves and two fish and as he looked into Heaven he blessed them, divided them, gave them to his disciples and the disciples made distribution to the groups.
20. All of them ate and were satisfied. They also ate the fish according to what they desired. After they had finished, they took the fragments, which remained, and filled twelve seahs with them.
21. The number of those eating was five thousand men apart from women and children.
22. After this, he commanded his disciples to assemble in a boat that they might go before him to the city to which the crowds were going.
23. After he left the crowds he went up on a mountain and prayed alone. At the time of evening he was standing alone.
24. The boat was in the midst of the sea and the waves of the sea were driving it because the wind was contrary.
25. At the fourth watch of the night Yeshuwa' came to them walking on the sea.
26. When his disciples saw him walking on the sea they were alarmed, thinking he was a demon, and from the greatness of their fear they were crying out.
27. Then Yeshuwa' answered them and said to them: "Let faith be among you because it is I; do not fear".
28. Shimeon answered and said to him: 'My Adon, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.
29. Yeshuwa' said to him: "Come". So Shimeon came down from the boat, walked on the sea, and came to Yeshuwa'.
30. But when he saw the strength of the wind he feared exceedingly and as he began to sink cried out and said: 'My Adon, save me'.
31. Immediately Yeshuwa' stretched out his hand, took him, and said to him: "Man of little belief, why did you doubt?"
32. When they went up into the boat, the wind became quiet,
33. and those in the boat did homage to him and said: 'Truly, you are the Son of The Mighty One'.
35. When the people of the place recognized him they sent into all that kingdom and brought to him all who were sick with various kinds of diseases.
36. They implored him that he might be pleased to allow them to touch the skirt of his garment, and each one who touched it was healed.

1. Then the scribes and the Pharisees came to Yeshuwa' and said to him:
2. 'Why do your disciples transgress the ordinances of antiquity by not washing their hands before eating?'
3. Yeshuwa' said to them: "Why do you transgess the words of The Mighty One because of your ordinances?"
4. For The Mighty One said: "Honour your father and your mother and he who smites his father and mother will surely be put to death" [Exodus 21:15]. 
5. "But you say that whatever word a man should say to his father and his mother [contrary to Exodus 21:17], any offering he might give for himself as a sinner causes this iniquity itself to be made void to him"
6. "So he does not honour his father and his mother, and you despise the words of The Mighty One by your ordinances".
7. "Woe, hypocrites, behold Isaiah prophesied concerning you and said:
8. "And YEHVAH said: Forasmuch as this people draw near, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me,"
9. "and their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by repetition; [Isaiah 29:13].
10. Yeshuwa called to the crowds and said to them: "Hear and consider."
11. "That which enters through the mouth does not soil the man, but that which goes out of the mouth soils the man"
12. Then his disciples came to him and said to him: 'Know that the Pharisees were perplexed by this word'.
13. Yeshuwa' answered them: "Every plant which my Father Who is in Heaven did not plant will be destroyed".
14. "Leave them alone because the blind are leading the blind, and if a blind man leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit".
15. Shimeon answered him: "My Adon explain this riddle to us"
16. Yeshuwa' answered them: "Are you still without knowledge?"
17. "Do you not understand that every thing that enters through the mouth goes into the belly and all of it goes on to the natural place?"
18. "But that which goes out through the mouth is moved by the heart; this is what soils the man."
19. "Because the defiled heart brings forth deceitfulness, murder, adulteries, robberies, the witness of liars and curses".
20. "All these things are what soil the man. Indeed eating without washing the hands does not soil the man".
21. After Yeshuwa' had said this, he went into the regions of Tyre and Sidon
22. Then there came to him a certain Canaanite woman, who came from the lands of the East, crying out to him: 'Master, son of David, have mercy on me because my daughter is possessed by demons'.
23. Yeshuwa' did not answer her a word. So his disciples approached him and said to him: 'Our Adon, why do you abandon this woman who is crying out after us?'
24. Yeshuwa' answered them: "I was only sent to the lost sheep from the house of Yisrael".
25. Then the woman did homage to him and said: 'My Adon help me'.
26. Yeshuwa' said to her: "It is not good that a man should take the bread from his children and give it to the dogs".
27. The woman answered: 'Often the dogs eat the pieces of bread that fall from the table of their master'.
28. Yeshuwa' answered her: "Woman, great is your belief, let it be done to you as you asked". So from that time on, her daughter was healed.
29. When Yeshuwa' moved on from there, he went into the region across Galilee to a mountain. As he stood there
30. he saw many people among whom were many lame, leprous, those who limped, and many others; they fell at his feet and he healed them.
31. The people were amazed at how the dumb were speaking and the lame were walking and the blind were seeing; all of them were praising The Mighty One.
32. Then Yeshuwa' said to his disciples: "I have compassion on them because they have remained with me these two days since they came across and they have nothing to eat. I do not want to leave them fasting [lest] they grow faint in the way".
33. His disciples answered him: 'Where will we be able to find bread in this wilderness to satisfy the people?'
34. Yeshuwa' answered and said to them: "How many loaves of bread do you have?" They answered: 'Seven and a few fish'.
35. So Yeshuwa' commanded the people to sit upon the grass.
36. He took the seven loaves and broke them and gave them to his disciples and they gave to the people.
37. All of them ate and were satisfied and from that which was remaining they filled seven seahs.
38. Those who were eating were by number, four thousand men besides women and children.
39. After this Yeshuwa' entered a boat and came to the land of Magadan.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

1. Sadducees and Pharisees came to him, tempting him to teach them some sign from Heaven.
2. Yeshuwa' answered them: "Hypocrites, you say in the evening: Tomorrow will be a clear day because the sky is red".
3. "Then in the morning you say : 'Today it will rain because the sky is dark'. If so, you know the law regarding the appearance of the sky, but you do not know the law regarding the times".
4. "The offspring of evil-doers ask for a sign, but no sign will be given them except the sign of Yonah the Prophet". Then he was separated from them and went away.
5. When Yeshuwa' came to the sea shore he told his disciples to prepare bread. Then he entered a boat with his disciples, but the disciples forgot and did not bring any bread.
6. And Yeshuwa' said to them, "Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
7. They began to discuss this among themselves, saying, "He said that because we did not bring any bread."
8. Yeshuwa' said to them: "You have little understanding who think that you have no bread".
9. "Do you not remember the five loaves and the five thousand men",
10. "or the seven loaves and the four thousand men, how many seahs were left over?"
11. "Therefore you should understand that I am not speaking of natural loaves"
12. "but I am saying to you that you should beware of the teachings of the Pharisees and Sadducees".
13. Yeshuwa' went out into the land of Syria and the land of Philip and asked his disciples saying:"What do men say about me?"
14. They said unto him: "Some say 'he is Yochanon the Immerser', some say 'he is Eliyahu', and some 'Yeremiah' or 'one of the prophets'".
15. Yeshuwa' said to them: "What do you say about me?"
16. Shimeon answered and said: "You are HaMashiyach [which means 'the Anointed'], the Son of the Living Elohiym, who has come into this world"
17. Yeshuwa' said to him: "Happy [Hebrew: ashar] are you Shimeon bar Yonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed [this] to you but my Father Who is in Heaven"
18. "I say to you: 'You are Eben [which means 'a stone'] and I will build upon you my house of prayer [Proverbs 9:1.  Isaiah 56:7]. The faction-makers [Hebrew: shaw-ariy] of Gehinnom [Acts 15:39] will not gain the upper hand against you"
19. "because I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth [Acts 1:15-26. 11:4-18. 15:7-11] will be bound in Heaven, whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven."
20. Then he commanded his disciples not to say that he is haMashiyach (the Anointed).
21. From then on Yeshuwa' began to reveal to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Yerushalem and to suffer the injustice of many; from the priests and from the elders of the people until they should kill him; then on the third day he would arise.
22. Shimeon took him aside privately and began to rebuke him saying: 'Far be it that it should be like this to you, Adon'.
23. Yeshuwa' turned, looked at him, and said "Go away Satan; do not disobey me, because you do not regard the word of The Mighty One but the words of man"
24. Then Yeshuwa' said to his disciples: "Whoever wishes to come after me let him despise himself and come after me".
25. "Everyone who wishes to save his soul will lose it for my sake, and he who loses his life in this world for my sake will save his soul for the life of the world to come".
26. "What profit is there for a man if he should gain the whole world but lose his soul forever; what good exchange does the man make if, for present things that are spoiled, he should give his soul to the judgment of Gehinnom?"
27. "Because the Son of The Mighty One will come in glory from his Father Who is in Heaven [Acts 3:13], with his messengers, to reward each man according to his work".
28. "Truly I say to you there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of The Mighty One coming in his Kingdom [Acts 2:41,47.  6:1,7.  21:20]"

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1. After six days Yeshuwa' took Shimeon, Yaakob and Yochanan his brother and brought them to a high mountain where he might pray.
2. While he was praying he was changed before them and the skin of his face shone like the sun and his garments white like snow.
3. Then Mosheh and Eliyah, while speaking with him, were revealed to them and they told Yeshuwa' all which would happen to him in Yerushalem. Shimeon and his companions were asleep. Asleep but not asleep; awake but not awake. They saw his body and the two men with him.
4. When they went away, then Shimeon said to Yeshuwa': 'It is good to be here. Let us make here three tabernacles, one for you, one for Mosheh, and one for Eliyah'; because he did not know what he was saying.
5. While he was still speaking, behold a cloud covered them and they were greatly alarmed. While they were under the cloud they heard from the midst of the cloud a voice speaking and saying: "Behold, this is My Son My beloved, My delight is in him, you shall obey him"
6. The disciples heard, fell on their faces to the ground, and feared exceedingly.
7. When the voice ceased, Yeshuwa' said to them: "Arise, do not fear"
8. They lifted up their eyes and saw no one except Yeshuwa' alone.
9. Yeshuwa' came down from the mountain and commanded them saying: "Tell no man the vision you have seen until the Son of Man has risen from death".
10. His disciples asked him saying: "Why do the scribes say that Eliyahu will come first?
11. He answered them and said: "Indeed Eliyahu will come and will help all the world".
12. "I say to you, he has already come, they did not know him, and they did to him according to their desire. So they will do to the Son of Man".
13. Then the disciples understood that regarding Yochanon the Immerser he was saying this.
14. It came to pass when he approached the crowds, a man came to him, bowing on his knees.
15. He said: 'Have mercy on me my Adon, and pity my son because he is terrified of an evil spirit and is very sick. He grinds his teeth, foams at his mouth, falls from his place to the ground, and falls sometimes into fire and sometimes into water'.
16. I brought him to your disciples, but they were unable to heal him.
17. Yeshuwa' answered and said: "Evil generation, woe to you who deny me; how long will I be with you, how long will I bear your trouble? Bring him to me".
18. And Yeshuwa' rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.
19. When Yeshuwa' entered the house the disciples drew near to Yeshuwa' secretly and said to him: "Why were we not able to cast it out"
20. He said to them: "Because of the limitation of your belief. Truly I say to you, if there be in you any belief, as a grain of mustard, if you believe, you will say to this mountain depart and it will depart; nothing will be witheld from you."
21. "But this kind of demon does not come out except by prayer and fasting.
22. They were in Galilee and Yeshuwa' said: "The Son of Man will be delivered into the hand of men"
23. "They will kill him and on the third day he will arise".
24. They came to Capernaum-Martha and the tax collectors drew near to Shimeon and said to him: "Your teacher does not follow the custom to pay tax"
25. Thus they spoke. He went into the house and Yeshuwa' anticipated him saying to Shimeon: "What is your judgment Shimeon, the kings of the earth, from whom do they take tribute, from their sons or from foreigners?"
26. He answered him: "From foreigners". Yeshuwa' said to him: "If so, then, the sons are free". Then he said: "Do not be dismayed because of this".
27. He said to Shimeon: "Go to the sea and cast a fishing hook and fish with it, because, in the mouth of the one you will catch first, you will find a silver coin. That you will give for us"

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

1. At that time the disciples drew near to Yeshuwa' and said to him: 'Whom do you think is great in the Kingdom of Heaven?'
2. He called a small boy and placed him in their midst.
3. He said: " I say to you, if you do not turn to become like this boy, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven"
5. "He who receives a boy, like this, in my name, receives me"
6. "He who causes one of the little children who believe in me to stumble, it would be good for him to tie a millstone upon his neck and be cast into the depth of the sea".
7. "Woe to the inhabitants of the world because of stumbling blocks, because stumbling blocks must come". He also said: "Woe to the man through whom the stumbling block comes"
8. "If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble cut it off and cast it from you; it is better for you to enter into life with one hand or lame than having two hands and two feet for you to be given to everlasting fire [Matthew 13:42]"
9. "If your eye should cause you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be given to Gehinnom"
10. "Take heed lest you judge one of the little children. I say to you, their angels always see the children of my Father [1 John 5:1] Who is in Heaven",
11. "and the Son of Man is come to save the lost ones"
12. "What is your opinion: If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains and go seek the one which has strayed?"
13. "If he should find it, truly I say to you he will rejoice over it more than the ninety-nine which did not go astray."
14. "Thus, my Father Who is in Heaven does not wish that any of these little children should be lost."
15. At that time Yeshuwa' said to Shimeon: "If your brother sins against you, reprove him privately. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother".
16. "If he does not listen to you, reprove him before another; if by every oath he does not listen to you, add still one or two in order that your words might be before two or three witnesses, because by two or three witnesses a word will be established".
17. "If by every oath he does not listen, tell it in the assembly; and if he does not listen to the assembly consider him as ostracized, an enemy and cruel".
18. "Truly I say to you that every oath which you shall bind on earth will be bound in Heaven and every oath which you shall loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven".
19. "Also, I say to you, if two of you wish to make peace on earth, everything which you ask will be yours from my Father Who is in Heaven".
20. "In every place where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in their midst".
21. Then Shimeon drew near to him saying: 'My Adon, if my brother sins against me, shall I forgive him unto seven times?'
22. Yeshuwa' said to him: "I do not say to you 'unto seven' but 'unto seventy-seven'"
23. At that time Yeshuwa' said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who sat to make a reckoning with his servants and ministers".
24. "As he began to reckon one came who owed about ten thousand pieces of gold".
25. "But he had nothing to give and his master commanded to sell him and his children and all which was his to repay the value".
26. "The servant fell before his master and implored him to have pity on him and to be patient with him because he would repay everything".
27. "Then his master had pity on him and forgave him everything".
28. "But that servant went out and found one of his comrades who owed him a hundred pieces of money and he grasped him and struck him saying: Pay back what you owe".
29. "So his comrade fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, 'Trust me and be patient with me and I will repay everything'".
30. "But he was not willing to listen to him; so he brought him to the prison until he repaid him everything".
31. "The servants of the king saw that which he did and they were very angry and went and told their master".
32. "Then his master called him and said to him: 'Cursed servant, did I not forgive you all your debt when you placated me'"?
33. "'So why did you not forgive your servant when he supplicated you, as I forgave you?'"
34. "His master was angry with him and commanded to afflict him until he should repay him all the debt".
35. "Thus will my Father Who is in Heaven do to you if you do not forgive each man his brother with a perfect heart"

CHAPTER NINETEEN

1. It came to pass when Yeshuwa' finished these words he passed on from Galilee and came to the outskirts of the land of Yehudah across the Yarden.
2. There followed him large crowds and he healed all of them.
3. Then the Pharisees came to him to tempt him. They asked him saying: 'Is it permissable for one to leave his wife for any matter and to give her a bill of divorce'.
4. He answered them: "Have you not read that He who made them of old, 'male and female He created them'" [Genesis 1:27]?.
5. He said: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife and they will become one flesh [Genesis 2:24].
6. "If so, they are not two but one flesh, and whatever The Creator has joined together man is unable to separate"
7. They said to him: 'If so, why did Mosheh command to give her a bill of divorce and to send her away from his house?'
8. He said to them: "Mosheh, because of the obstinacy of your heart, said for you to leave your wives. But from the beginning it was not so".
9. "I say to you that everyone who leaves his wife and takes another, if not for adultery, commits adultery; and he who takes her who has been put away, commits adultery".
10. Then his disciples said to him: 'If the matter of a man with his wife is so, it is not good to take her'.
11. He said to them: "This matter is not for everyone but for those to whom it has been given".
12. "Because there are eunuchs from their birth; these are those who have not sinned. There are eunuchs made by man and there are self-made eunuchs who subdue their desire for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven; these are those who enter into great prominence. Whoever is able to understand let him undertstand".
13. Then they brought children to him that he might lay his hand on them and pray for them, but his disciples were driving them away.
14. Yeshuwa' said to them: "Permit the children to come to me and do not restrain them, for of them is the Kingdom of Heaven. Truly I say to you that one will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven except he shall be like these".
15. So he laid his hand on them and went on from there.
16. A young man came to him doing homage to him and said to him: 'Rabbi what good thing shall I do to acquire the life of the world to come?'
17. He answered him: "Why do you ask me about good? No man is good; because The Mighty One alone is good. But if you wish to enter life keep the commandments".
18. He said to him: 'What are they?' Yeshuwa' said to him: "Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor".
19. "Honour your father and your mother and love your neighbour as yourself"
20. The young man said to him: 'All these I have kept, so what, yet, do I lack?'
21. Yeshuwa' said unto him: "If you wish to be perfect go and sell all which you have and give it to the poor and you will have treasure in Heaven and follow me".
22. It came to pass when the young man heard he went away angry because he did not have much property.
23. Yeshuwa' said to his disciples: "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven".
24. "Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than a rich man the Kingdom of Heaven"
25. The disciples heard and were exceedingly amazed and said to Yeshuwa': 'If so, who can save [them]?'
26. He turned to them and said: "With man the matter is difficult, but with The Mighty One everything is easy".
27. Shimeon answered and said to him: 'Behold we have left all to follow after you; what will be ours?'
28. Yeshuwa' said: "Truly I say to ye who follow me; in the day of judgment when The Son of Man sits upon the throne of his glory ye also will sit upon the twelve thrones of the twelve tribes of Yisrael"
29. "Everyone who leaves his house, and his brothers, also his sisters, his father, his mother, his wife and his children for my name will receive a hundred like them and will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven"
30. "Many who are first will be last and many who are last will be first"

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