If your right hand makes you stumble and leads you to sin, cut it off and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

And why are you worried about clothes? See how the lilies and wildflowers of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin [wool to make clothing],

and asked Him, “Are You the Expected One (the Messiah), or should we look for someone else [who will be the promised One]?”

For this nation’s heart has grown hard,
And with their ears they hardly hear,
And they have [tightly] closed their eyes,
Otherwise they would see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart, and turn [to Me]
And I would heal them [spiritually].’

And if it turns out that he finds it, I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones be lost.

But he was unwilling and he went and had him thrown in prison until he paid back the debt.

Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave [who owed you little by comparison], as I had mercy on you?’

And in wrath his master turned him over to the torturers (jailers) until he paid all that he owed.

Then you ought to have put my money with the bankers, and at my return I would have received my money back with interest.