Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’

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.

“The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

When he saw them he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went along, they were cleansed.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

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

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.’”

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

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.

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!”

“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.