“The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored, as healthy as the other.

He presented them with another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

“For this reason, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Then he said to them, “Therefore every expert in the law who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old.”

What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?

The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”