4. “I say to you, My friends, you should not be afraid of those who kill the body, since after this they have nothing more they can do.
5. But I will show you whom you should fear. Fear the One who, after the killing, has authority to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear this One!
6. “Aren’t five sparrows being sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
7. Indeed, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
8. Now I tell you, whoever acknowledges Me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge him before the angels of God.
9. But the one who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
10. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who slanders the Ruach ha-Kodesh will not be forgiven.
11. And when they bring you to the synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,
12. because the Ruach ha-Kodesh will teach you at that time what is necessary to say.”
13. Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14. But Yeshua said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or arbitrator over you?”
15. Then He said to them, “Watch out! Be on guard against all kinds of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the material goods he possesses.”
16. And Yeshua told them a parable, saying, “The land of a certain rich man produced good crops.
17. And he began thinking to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do? I don’t have a place to store my harvest!’
18. And he said, ‘Here’s what I’ll do! I’ll tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I’ll store all my grain and my goods.
19. And I’ll say to myself, ’O my soul, you have plenty of goods saved up for many years! So take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry.”’
20. But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’
21. So it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich in God.”