Have you suffered so many things for nothing? – if indeed it was for nothing.

Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!