12. ‘I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’
13. “But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’
14. “I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.”
15. And they also brought infants to Him to touch them, but His taught ones seeing it, rebuked them.
16. But יהושע called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the reign of Elohim.
17. “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the reign of Elohim as a little child, shall certainly not enter into it.”
18. And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?”
19. So יהושע said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One – Elohim.
20. “You know the commands, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Respect your father and your mother.’ ”