You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and there is.

No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!

No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”

Thus Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it?

“Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

Now a certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

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

Then they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt, and had Jesus get on it.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him.”

He said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

But when these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”