Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

But he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, because a person more distinguished than you may have been invited by your host.

So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

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.’

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

“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!’

The man replied, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

“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.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.