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Yeshua (Jesus) quotations

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These are the quotes that the Jesus Seminar judges most authentic, in order starting with the likeliest. See below for references.

When someone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well.

When someone takes away your coat, don't prevent that person from taking your shirt along with it.

Congratulations, you poor! God's domain belongs to you.

Further, when anyone conscripts you for one mile, go an extra mile.

Love your enemies.

What does God's imperial rule remind me of? It is like leaven which a woman took and concealed in fifty pounds of flour until it was all leavened.

Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and God what belongs to God!

Give to everyone who begs from you..

There was a man going from Jerusalem down to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead. Now by coincidence a priest was going down that road; when he caught sight of him, he went out of his way to avoid him. In the same way, when a Levite came to the place, he took one look at him and crossed the road to avoid him. But this Samaritan who was traveling that way came to where he was and was moved to pity at the sight of him. He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring olive oil and wine on them. He hoisted him onto his own animal, brought him to an inn, and looked after him. The next day, he took out two silver coins, which he gave to the innkeeper, and said, 'Look after him, and on my way back I'll reimburse you for any extra expense you have had.'

Congratulations, you hungry! You will have a feast.
Congratulations, you who weep now! You will laugh.

There was this rich man whose manager had been accused of squandering his master's property. He called him in and said, 'What's this I hear about you? Let's have an audit of your management, because your job is being terminated.' Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do? My master is firing me. I'm not strong enough to dig ditches and I'm ashamed to beg. I've got it! I know what I'll do so doors will open for me when I'm removed from management.' So he called in each of his master's debtors. He said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' He said, 'Five hundred gallons of olive oil.' And he said to him, 'Here is your invoice; sit down right now and make it two hundred and fifty.' Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He said, '1000 bushels of wheat.' He says to him, 'Here is your invoice; make it 800.' The master praised the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly...

For Heaven's imperial rule is like a proprietor who went out the first thing in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the workers for a silver coin a day he sent them into his vineyard. And coming out around 9 a.m. he saw others loitering in the marketplace and he said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too, and I'll pay you whatever is fair.' So they went. Around noon he went out again, and at 3 p.m., and repeated the process. About 5 p.m. he went out and found others loitering about and says to them, 'Why did you stand around here idle the whole day?' They reply, 'Because no one hired us.' He tells them, 'You go into the vineyard as well.' When evening came the owner of the vineyard tells his foreman: 'Call the workers and pay them their wages starting with those hired last and ending with those hired first.' Those hired at 5 p.m. came up and received a silver coin each. Those hired first approached thinking they would receive more. But they also got a silver coin apiece. They took it and began to grumble against the proprietor: 'These guys hired last worked only an hour but you have made them equal to us who did most of the work during the heat of the day.' In response he said to one of them, 'Look, pal, did I wrong you? You did agree with me for a silver coin, didn't you? Take your wage and get out! I intend to treat the one hired last the same way I treat you. Is there some law forbidding me to do with my money as I please? Or is your eye filled with envy because I am generous?'

Father...

It's like a mustard seed. It's the smallest of all seeds, but when it falls on prepared soil, it produces a large plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky.'

Do not fret, from morning to evening and from evening to morning, about your food-- what you're going to eat, or about your clothing-- what you are going to wear.

Or again, is there any woman with ten silver coins, who if she loses one, wouldn't light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? When she finds it, she invites her friends and neighbors over and says, 'Celebrate with me, because I have found the silver coin I had lost.'

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