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!

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

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again – he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

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

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

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

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

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

And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.

Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.”

And now, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time, you will be silent, unable to speak, until the day these things take place.”

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”

For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

Then Jesus asked, “Who was it who touched me?” When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds are surrounding you and pressing against you!”

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”

Then he will reply from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.’

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’

But if that slave should say to himself, ‘My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,