I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.’

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’

Won’t the master instead say to him, ‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’?

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!”

Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?”

and if I ask you, you will not answer.

“This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.

Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’

For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!’”

Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.”’

Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

So the rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father – send Lazarus to my father’s house

Now a certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

And Peter said, “Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!”

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand,