15and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, [is] abomination before God;
16the law and the prophets [are] till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;
17and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.
18`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.
19`And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
20and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,
21and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.