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?’

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.

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

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.’”

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”

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

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.

Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.