13a“No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
The Law, the Prophets, and the Kingdom
14 Now the Pharisees, awho were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they1 derided Him.
15 And He said to them, “You are those who ajustify yourselves bbefore men, but cGod knows your hearts. For dwhat is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16a“The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.
17aAnd it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one1tittle of the law to fail.
18a“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19“There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and1fared sumptuously every day.
That justify yourselves (oi dikaiountev eautouv). They were past-masters at that and were doing it now by upturned noses.
An abomination in the sight of God (bdelugma enwpion tou qeou). See on Matthew 24:15; Mark 13:14 for this LXX word for a detestable thing as when Antiochus Epiphanes set up an altar to Zeus in place of that to Jehovah. There is withering scorn in the use of this phrase by Jesus to these pious pretenders.
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