16. "The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
18. "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
19. "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
20. And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
21. and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.
22. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.