So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

But when Jesus discerned their innermost thoughts, he took a child, had him stand by his side,

so he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

Therefore he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m too ashamed to beg.