16. “The Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets were in effect up to the time of John the Baptist; since then the Good News about the Kingdom of God is being told, and everyone forces their way in.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with.
18. “Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
19. “There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.
20. There was also a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who used to be brought to the rich man's door,