“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

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’?

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”

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

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

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

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

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

‘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.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”