They encounter some Pharisees.

Where should we look for God’s kingdom?

God’s kingdom won’t come from looking for it.

Don’t hope that someone will say to you, look here, or look there, for, look, God’s kingdom is in you.

Lord, when will we see it?

In a certain town there was a judge who feared neither God nor man.

A widow in the town came to him and said, Give me justice against my enemy.

At first the judge did nothing, but when the woman came back again and again he said to himself, Will there be no end to this trouble?

I know I’ll get nothing out of this quarrel, but I had better do something about it in her favor.

So the unjust judge.

Can you doubt that God defends His elect who cry to Him day and night?

I tell you, while they’re waiting, He has already given them everything they need.

We shall never stop praying.

Two men entered the temple to pray, a Pharisee and a tax collector.

The Pharisee walked to the front, looked up, and prayed, God, thank you for making me different from other men, robbers, cheaters, adulterers, and from that tax collector.

I fast twice a week, a tenth of what’s mine I give to you.

The tax collector remained in the back, did not look up to God, but beat his chest and said, God, pity me, a sinner.

The tax collector, and not the Pharisee, returned blessed to his home.

Are there any grounds for which a man may divorce his wife?

Haven’t you read, In the beginning he who created man created him male and female, and Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and they shall be one flesh, no longer two, but one flesh.

Therefore what God joins together, no man may separate.

Why then did Moses allow us to divorce a wife after giving her notice of separation?

It is because of your recalcitrance that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives.

It was not so at the beginning.

I say to you that anyone who divorces a faithful wife forces her into adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery himself.

If that’s how it is, it’s better not to marry.

Not everyone will agree with your conclusion, but some will find it given them.

Some are born eunuchs, some are made eunuchs by men, and some make themselves eunuchs for the sake of God’s kingdom.

Whoever can accept this, let him do so.