Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

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

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

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.

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,

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

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.