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?’

That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

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.

So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”

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

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.’”

(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.

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

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

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

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.

who will not receive many times more in this age – and in the age to come, eternal life.”

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