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

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Now on the way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.

Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

He fell with his face to the ground at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (Now he was a Samaritan.)

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

He answered, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!”

Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by whose authority I do these things.”

So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

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

Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.