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

He won’t thank the slave because he did what he was told, will he?

Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.

Therefore be resolved not to rehearse ahead of time how to make your defense.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

When he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

He said, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

He said, “Watch out that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them!

So the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God!

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.”

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

Other seed fell on rock, and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

But when Jesus heard this, he told him, “Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”