12. If you can’t be trusted with someone else’s wealth, who will give you your own?
13. “A servant cannot serve two masters. He will hate the first master and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and despise the second. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
14. The Pharisees, who love money, heard all this and were making sarcastic remarks about him.
15. So Jesus said to them, “You try to justify your actions in front of people. But God knows what’s in your hearts. What is important to humans is disgusting to God.
16. “Moses’ Teachings and the Prophets were ⌊in force⌋ until the time of John. Since that time, people have been telling the Good News about the kingdom of God, and everyone is trying to force their way into it.