Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;Which of you, if you have a son<n id="2" /> or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> one of those at the meal with Jesus<n id="2" /> heard this, he said to him, &#8220;Blessed is everyone<n id="3" /> who will feast<n id="4" /> in the kingdom of God!&#8221;<n id="5" />

At<n id="1" /> the time for the banquet<n id="2" /> he sent his slave<n id="3" /> to tell those who had been invited, &#8216;Come, because everything is now ready.&#8217;

But when he came to his senses<n id="1" /> he said, &#8216;How many of my father&#8217;s hired workers have food<n id="2" /> enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

So<n id="1" /> he contacted<n id="2" /> his master&#8217;s debtors one by one. He asked the first, &#8216;How much do you owe my master?&#8217;

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth,<n id="1" /> so that when it runs out you will be welcomed<n id="2" /> into the eternal homes.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The law and the prophets were in force<n id="1" /> until John;<n id="2" /> since then,<n id="3" /> the good news of the kingdom of God<n id="4" /> has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.<n id="5" />

who longed to eat<n id="1" /> what fell from the rich man&#8217;s table. In addition, the dogs<n id="2" /> came and licked<n id="3" /> his sores.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> said to his disciples, &#8220;Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe<n id="2" /> to the one through whom they come!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Would any one of you say<n id="1" /> to your slave<n id="2" /> who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, &#8216;Come at once and sit down for a meal&#8217;?<n id="3" />

For just like the lightning flashes<n id="1" /> and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.<n id="2" />

There was also a widow<n id="1" /> in that city<n id="2" /> who kept coming<n id="3" /> to him and saying, &#8216;Give me justice against my adversary.&#8217;

I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> whoever does not receive<n id="2" /> the kingdom of God like a child<n id="3" /> will never<n id="4" /> enter it.&#8221;p>

When Jesus noticed this,<n id="1" /> he said, &#8220;How hard<n id="2" /> it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!<n id="3" />

He<n id="1" /> was trying to get a look at Jesus,<n id="2" /> but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.<n id="3" />

&#8216;I tell you that everyone who has will be given more,<n id="1" /> but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law<n id="2" /> and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate<n id="3" /> him,

Then<n id="1" /> the owner of the vineyard said, &#8216;What should I do? I will send my one dear son;<n id="2" /> perhaps they will respect him.&#8217;

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in<n id="1" /> that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.<n id="2" />

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined,<n id="1" /> but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!&#8221;