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1 And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.
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7 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, It is impossible for the nisayon (temptation) to sin not to come, but oy through whom it comes.
2 It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.
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It is better for him if a millstone is hung around his neck and he had been thrown into the sea than that he should cause a michshol for these little ones.
3 Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.
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Pay attention to yourselves. If your ach sins and you rebuke him, and if he makes teshuva, grant him selicha (forgiveness).
4 And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.
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And if shevah paamim during the yom he sins against you and shevah paamim he turns around to you saying, I make teshuva, you will grant him selicha.
5 And the twelve said to the Lord, Make our faith greater.
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And the Shlichim said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoneinu, increase our emunah.
6 And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu said, If you have emunah like a mustard seed, you would have said to this mulberry etz, be uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would have given you mishma’at.
7 But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,
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But who among you, having an eved plowing or tending kevesim, when the eved comes in from the sadeh, will say to him, Here, come ofen ort (immediately) and recline at tish.
8 Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?
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Rather, would he not say, Prepare something that I may have okhel; gird up your tunic and serve me until I am satisfied, and, after that, you may have okhel?
9 Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?
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There is no obligatory effusive todah, when the eved only did his chiyuv (duty).
10 In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
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So also you, when you do all these things which are given you as mitzvot, say, We are useless avadim, we only did our chiyuv.
11 And it came about that when they were on the way to Jerusalem he went through Samaria and Galilee.
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And it came about while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach goes to Yerushalayim, he was traveling through the middle of Shomron and the Galil.
12 And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,
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And entering into a certain shtetl, some anashim metzoraim (leprous men) met Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and there were ten of them. Keeping their distance, [VAYIKRA 13:45,46]
13 Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
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They shouted, saying, Yehoshua, Rabbi, chaneinu!
14 And when he saw them he said, Go, and let the priests see you. And, while they were going, they were made clean.
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And having seen this, he said to them, Go and show yourselves to the kohanim. And it came about while they were going away that they were made metoharim (clean). [VAYIKRA 14:3]
15 And one of them, when he saw that he was clean, turning back, gave praise to God in a loud voice;
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And one of them, having seen that he had received refuah, returned with a kol gadol (loud voice), saying Baruch Hashem!
16 And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.
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And he fell on his face at the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, giving hodayah (thanksgiving). And he was a Shomroni (Samaritan).
17 And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?
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And in reply Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Were there not ten who were made metoharim? Now the tishah (nine), where are they?
18 Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?
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Was none of them found to turn around and return and give kavod (glory) to Hashem except this nokhri (foreigner)?
19 And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well.
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And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Get up and go. Your emunah (faith) has delivered you.
20 And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:
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Now having been asked by the Perushim, Ad mosai? (How much longer?) When comes the Malchut Hashem? Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach replied, The Malchut Hashem is not coming with things observable,
21 And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you.
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nor will they say, Hinei, here it is, or There it is, for hinei, the Malchut Hashem is within you.
22 And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.
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And he said to the talmidim, Yamim are coming when you will long to see one of the yamim of the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, Dan 7:13]. And you will not see it.
23 And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.
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They will say to you, Hinei, there it is! Or, hinei, here it is! Do not go out after them nor pursue them.
24 For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.
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For as the lightning flashing out of one part under Shomayim lights up the other part under Shomayim, thus will be the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) in his Yom.
25 But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.
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But brishonah it is necessary for him to suffer many things and to be rejected by HaDor HaZeh.
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man.
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And just as it was in the yamim of Noach, thus will it be also in the yamim of the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14). [BERESHIS 6:5-8; 7:6-24]
27 They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.
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They were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage, until the Yom when Noach entered into the Tevah (Ark) and HaMabbul (the Flood) came and destroyed everything.
28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;
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Likewise, just as it was in the yamim of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building. [Gn 19:1-28]
29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
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But on the Yom when Lot went out from Sdom, from Shomayim it rained down eish and gofrit and destroyed everything.
30 So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.
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So it will be on the Yom when the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) has his hisgalus (revelation).
31 On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.
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On that yom let not anyone on the housetop come back down inside for any of his property in the bais, and the one in a sadeh (field) likewise let him not turn back for things left behind.
32 Keep in mind Lot's wife.
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Remember eshet Lot (Lot’s wife). [BERESHIS 19:26]
33 If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.
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Whoever seeks to preserve his nefesh will lose it; but whoever loses it, will preserve it.
34 I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.
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I say to you, in lailah hazeh there will be two in one bed: one will be taken; and the other will be left.
35 Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.
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There will be shtayim (two) grinding at the same place: one will be taken, but the other will be left.
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Shtayim will be in the sadeh (field); one will be taken and the other left.
37 And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.
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And in reply they say to him, Where, Adoneinu? But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Where the NEVELAH (DEVARIM 21:23) is, there also the nesharim (vultures, eagles [popularly]) will be gathered together.
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