And testing Him, one of them, a lawyer, asked,
But Yeshua, knowing their wickedness, said, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Torah?”
Pharisees came up, and to test Him they began asking, “Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife?”
“Woe to you, Torah lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter, and you stood in the way of those entering.”
So Yeshua said to the Torah lawyers and the Pharisees, “Is it permitted to heal on Shabbat, or not?”
But the Pharisees and Torah lawyers, not having been immersed by John, declared God’s purpose invalid for themselves.
Now they were saying this to trap Him, so that they would have grounds to accuse Him. But Yeshua knelt down and started writing in the dirt with His finger.
Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey with great care, so that nothing is lacking for them.
