Luke [White-light] 18:8-29

⁸I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find trusting faith on the earth?”

⁹He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

¹⁰“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee Separated, and the other was a tax collector.

¹¹The Pharisee Separated stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, moichoi ·adulterers·, or even like this tax collector.

¹²I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

¹³But the tax collector, standing far away, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹⁵They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

¹⁶Yeshua Salvation summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

¹⁷Most certainly, I tell you, whoever does not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

¹⁸A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

¹⁹Yeshua Salvation asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one— God’s Torah ·Teaching·.

²⁰You know the mitzvot ·instructions·: ‘Don’t moicheuo ·commit adultery·,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”

²¹He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

²²When Yeshua Salvation heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”

²³But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

²⁴Yeshua Salvation, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

²⁵For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

²⁶Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

²⁷But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

²⁸Peter Rock said, “Look, we have left everything, and followed you.”

²⁹He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,