Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out – a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Then Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for everyone?”

Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”

“Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’

Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God.

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?”

But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up here to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with 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!”

But Jesus said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

They will say, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m too ashamed to beg.

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

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ The second man replied, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

But Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.

Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

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.’”

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.