14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things and derided Him.
15 He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed before men is an abomination before God.
16 “The Law and the Prophets were preached until John. Since then the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.
17 It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of the law to fail.
18 “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced by her husband commits adultery.
19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.
20 There was also a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate,