16:13. No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one
and love the other: or he will hold to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.

16:14. Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and
they derided him.

16:15. And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before
men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an
abomination before God.

16:16. The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the
kingdom of God is preached: and every one useth violence towards it.

16:17. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of
the law to fall.

16:18. Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another
committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her
husband committeth adultery.

16:19. There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine
linen and feasted sumptuously every day.

16:20. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his
gate, full of sores,

16:21. Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich
man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked
his sores.

16:22. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the
angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was
buried in hell.

Abraham's bosom... The place of rest, where the souls of the saints
resided, till Christ had opened heaven by his death.

16:23. And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham
afar off and Lazarus in his bosom:

16:24. And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send
Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my
tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.

16:25. And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive
good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now
he is comforted and thou art tormented.

16:26. And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great
chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from
thence come hither.

16:27. And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send
him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,

16:28. That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this
place of torments.

16:29. And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets. Let
them hear them.

16:30. But he said: No, father Abraha