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!”

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.

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.’”

Jesus said to his disciples, “Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

When he saw them he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went along, they were cleansed.

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

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

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

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

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

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

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.’

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

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

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

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’