And it happened that while he was praying in a certain place, when he finished, one of his disciples said to him: our Master, teach us to pray just as Yochanan also taught his disciples.

Y'shua said to them: When you pray, say this: Our Father who is in heaven, may your name be hallowed; may your kingdom come; may your will be done, as in heaven, also on earth;

give us the bread of our need every day;

and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us; and do not bring us into trial, but deliver us from the evil one.

And he said to them: Who among you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says to him: my friend, lend me three loaves;

because a friend has come to me from the road, and I have nothing to set before him?

And his friend from inside will answer and say to him, Do not disturb me, for the door is shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you.

I say to you: If he will not give to him on account of friendship, yet on account of his importunity he will rise and give him as much as is asked for him.

I also say to you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it is opened.

For which of you who is a father, if his son asks him for bread, will he hand him a stone? Or if he asks him for a fish, will he instead of a fish hand him a serpent?

And if he asks him for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion?

And if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the Ruach haKodesh to those who ask him?

And when he was casting out a demon that was mute, it happened that when that demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the crowds were amazed.

But some of them said, By Baalzebub the head of the demons this one casts out demons.

And others, while testing him, were asking him for a sign from heaven.

But Y'shua, who knew their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom that is divided against itself will be ruined, and a house that is divided against itself will fall.

And if Satana is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Since you say that I cast out demons by Baalzebub.

And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be judges for you.

But if I by the finger of Elohim cast out demons, the kingdom of Elohim has come near to you.

When a strong man armed keeps his doorway, his property rests in peace.

But if one stronger than he comes and overpowers him, he takes away all his armor on which he relied, and divides his spoil.

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

An unclean spirit, when it goes out from a son of man, goes wandering in places where there is no water, to seek rest for itself; and when it does not find it, it says: I will return to my house from which I went out.

And when he comes, he finds it swept and set in order.

Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

And while he was saying these things, a certain woman from the crowd lifted up her voice and said to him: Blessed is the womb that carried you, and the breasts that nursed you.

He said to her: Blessed are they who hear the word of Elohim and keep it.

And when the crowds were assembling, he began to say: This evil generation seeks a sign; and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Yonah the prophet.

For as Yonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.

The queen of the south will stand up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, for she came from the other sides of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shleemun, and one greater than Shleemun is here.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Yonan, and one greater than Yonan is here.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but above on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light.

The lamp of your body is your eye. When your eye is simple, your whole body also will be light; but if it is bad, your body also will be dark.

Take care, then, that the light in you is not darkness.

But if your whole body is light and no part in it is dark, the whole will be light, as when a lamp by its flame gives light to you.

And while he was speaking, one Pharisee asked him to dine with him; and he went in and reclined.

But the Pharisee, when he saw him, wondered that he did not first immerse before his dinner.

But Y'shua said to him: Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of extortion and evil.

You who lack understanding! Did not he who made the outside also make the inside?

But give as alms what is there, and look, everything is clean to you.

But woe to you Pharisees, for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, yet you pass over justice and the love of Elohim. These you ought to do, and not leave those undone.

Woe to you, Pharisees, who love the chief seats in the synagogues and a greeting in the streets.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like graves that are not known, and the sons of men walk over them and do not know it.

And one of the scribes answered and said to him, Teacher, when you say these things you also insult us.

But he said, Woe also to you, scribes, who load the sons of men with heavy burdens, and you yourselves do not touch those burdens with one of your fingers.

Woe to you who build the graves of the prophets that your fathers killed.

You therefore testify and consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them and you build their graves.

Because of this the wisdom of Elohim also said: I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will persecute and kill,

so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the world was created may be required from this generation,

from the blood of Habel to the blood of Zakharya who was killed between the temple and the altar. Yes, I say to you, it will be required from this generation.

Woe to you, scribes, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and those who are entering you have hindered.

And while he was saying these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to be offended and grew angry and carped at his words,

and they laid many snares for him, seeking to catch something from his mouth so they might accuse him.