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Matthew 3:9

Good News Translation (US Version)

And don't think you can escape punishment by saying that Abraham is your ancestor. I tell you that God can take these rocks and make descendants for Abraham!

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Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins. And don't start saying among yourselves that Abraham is your ancestor. I tell you that God can take these rocks and make descendants for Abraham!

“We are the descendants of Abraham,” they answered, “and we have never been anybody's slaves. What do you mean, then, by saying, ‘You will be free’?”

What shall we say, then, of Abraham, the father of our race? What was his experience?

“My fellow Israelites, descendants of Abraham, and all Gentiles here who worship God: it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent!

So he called out, ‘Father Abraham! Take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue, because I am in great pain in this fire!’

Our father Abraham died; you do not claim to be greater than Abraham, do you? And the prophets also died. Who do you think you are?”

Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Why do you think such things?

For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,

“Mortal man,” he said, “the people who are living in the ruined cities of the land of Israel are saying: ‘Abraham was only one man, and he was given the whole land. There are many of us, so now the land is ours.’

Simon has just explained how God first showed his care for the Gentiles by taking from among them a people to belong to him.

Jesus answered, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones themselves will start shouting.”

When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know who this woman is who is touching him; he would know what kind of sinful life she lives!”

He began to think to himself, ‘I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do?

I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me, because you will not accept my teaching.




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