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?’

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

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

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

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!”

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

The man replied, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

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.’”

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.”

“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’?

Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

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!”

And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’

So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

Then Jesus went out and made his way, as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.