22. Teaching concerning
Tolerance for Unity
23. Coming to Judea
Tolerance for Unity
- John said to Him, Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.
- But Jesus said, Do not forbid him, for there is no one who will do a work of power in My name and be able soon to speak evil of Me.
- For he who is not against us is for us.
- For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name that you are Christ’s, truly I say to you that he shall by no means lose his reward.
- And whoever stumbles one of these little ones who believe into Me, it is better for him if a great millstone is placed around his neck and he is thrown into the sea.
- And if your hand stumbles you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands and go away into Gehenna, into unquenchable fire.
- See note 44.
- And if your foot stumbles you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into Gehenna.
- See note 46.
- And if your eye stumbles you, cast it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,
- Where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.
- For everyone shall be salted with fire.
- Salt is good, but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you restore its saltiness? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another.
23. Coming to Judea
- And He rose up from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and again crowds came together to Him, and as He was accustomed, again He taught them.
- And some Pharisees came and asked Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife, so as to tempt Him.
- And He answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?
- And they said, Moses allowed us to write a certificate of divorce and divorce her.
- And Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.
- But from the beginning of creation, He made them male and female.
- For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife;
- And the two shall be one flesh. So then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
- Therefore what God has yoked together, let man not separate.
- And in the house the disciples questioned Him again concerning this.
- And He said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
- And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
- And they brought little children to Him so that He might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.
- But Jesus, seeing it, was indignant and said to them, Allow the little children to come to Me. Do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.
- Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child shall by no means enter into it.
- And taking them into His arms, He fervently blessed them, laying His hands on them.
