Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

Jesus said to his disciples, “Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”