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

Jesus also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and it does.

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.

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”

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?”

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, because a person more distinguished than you may have been invited by your host.

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?

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

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!

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again – he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

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

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’”

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

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.