With many words they make long, empty prayers to trick widows into giving them their homes and possessions, but they will all come to a worse end than others.”
Watch your step, or greed will make you stumble. Remember, one’s life is not made up of many possessions.” There were many people in the crowd who heard what he said about possessions,
People will love only themselves and possessions. They will be puffed up, big-headed, troublemakers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, and unspiritual.
“Sorrow and trouble is waiting for you scroll keepers and Separated Ones (Pharisees), for you have hidden from the people the way onto the good road from above. You have failed to walk the good road yourselves, and, even worse, you have barred the way for others who were trying to find the way.