For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

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!

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

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.’”

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

“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’?

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’”

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

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!”

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

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

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

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

So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

So they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?”

And when you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be afraid. For these things must happen first, but the end will not come at once.”

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.