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

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

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

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

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.

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.

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,

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”

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

who will not receive many times more in this age – and in the age to come, eternal life.”

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

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

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

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

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!’

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!”

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.