Part 14

009:037 "Whoever for my sake receives one such young child as this, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not so much me as Him who sent me."

009:038 "Rabbi," said John to Him, "we saw a man making use of your name to expel demons, and we tried to hinder him, on the ground that he did not follow us."

009:039 "You should not have tried to hinder him," replied Jesus, "for there is no one who will use my name to perform a miracle and be able the next minute to speak evil of me.

009:040 He who is not against us is for us;

009:041 and whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, I solemnly tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.

009:042 "And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

009:043 If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the fire which cannot be put out.

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009:045 Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

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009:047 Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God half-blind than remain in possession of two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,

009:048 where their worm does not die and the fire does not go out.

009:049 Every one, however, will be salted with fire.

009:050 Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another."

010:001 Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea and crosses the Jordan: again the people flock to Him, and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching them once more.

010:002 Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question-- seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"

010:003 "What rule did Moses lay down for you?" He answered.

010:004 "Moses," they said, "permitted a man to draw up a written notice of divorce, and to send his wife away."

010:005 "It was in consideration of your stubborn hearts," said Jesus, "that Moses enacted this law for you;

010:006 but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, 'Male and female did God make them.

010:007 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,

010:008 and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'

010:009 What, therefore, God has joined together let not man separate."

010:010 Indoors the disciples began questioning Jesus again on the same subject.

010:011 He replied, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman, commits adultery against the first wife;

010:012 and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

010:013 One day people were bringing young children to Jesus for Him to touch them, but the disciples interfered.

010:014 Jesus, however, on seeing this, was moved to indignation, and said to them, "Let the little children come to me: do not hinder them; for to those who are childlike the Kingdom of God belongs.