For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

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?

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.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

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.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

“Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

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

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

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

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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.