Nebuchadnezzar’s Second Dream

4 ^[a] King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages that live throughout the earth: May you have abundant prosperity!

⁵ I saw a dream that frightened me; my fantasies in bed and the visions of my head terrified me. ⁶ So I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, in order that they might tell me the interpretation of the dream. ⁷ Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not tell me its interpretation. ⁸ At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and who is endowed with a spirit of the holy gods^[a]—and I told him the dream: ⁹ ‘O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that you are endowed with a spirit of the holy gods^[b] and that no mystery is too difficult for you. Hear^[c] the dream that I saw; tell me its interpretation.

The Law and the Prophets

¹⁷ ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. ¹⁸ For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter,^[a] not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. ¹⁹ Therefore, whoever breaks^[b] one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.