So<n id="1" /> Jesus asked<n id="2" /> the experts in religious law<n id="3" /> and the Pharisees, &#8220;Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath<n id="4" /> or not?&#8221;

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;

So<n id="1" /> the master said to his<n id="2" /> slave, &#8216;Go out to the highways<n id="3" /> and country roads<n id="4" /> and urge<n id="5" /> people<n id="6" /> to come in, so that my house will be filled.<n id="7" />

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, &#8220;Father, I have sinned<n id="1" /> against heaven<n id="2" /> and against<n id="3" /> you.

<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!

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, &#8216;I repent,&#8217; you must forgive<n id="1" /> him.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he said to the disciples, &#8220;The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days<n id="2" /> of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

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;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down<n id="2" /> on everyone else.

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to him, &#8220;Today salvation<n id="2" /> has come to this household,<n id="3" /> because he too is a son of Abraham!<n id="4" />

And he summoned ten of his slaves,<n id="1" /> gave them ten minas,<n id="2" /> and said to them, &#8216;Do business with these until I come back.&#8217;

Now<n id="1" /> when he approached Bethphage<n id="2" /> and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives,<n id="3" /> he sent two of the disciples,

Then<n id="1" /> they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks<n id="2" /> on the colt,<n id="3" /> and had Jesus get on<n id="4" /> it.

saying, &#8220;If you had only known on this day,<n id="1" /> even you, the things that make for peace!<n id="2" /> But now they are hidden<n id="3" /> from your eyes.

So<n id="1" /> they discussed it with one another, saying, &#8220;If we say, &#8216;From heaven,&#8217; he will say, &#8216;Why did you not believe him?&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he began to tell the people this parable: &#8220;A man<n id="2" /> planted a vineyard,<n id="3" /> leased it to tenant farmers,<n id="4" /> and went on a journey for a long time.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave<n id="1" /> to the tenants so that they would give<n id="2" /> him his portion of the crop.<n id="3" /> However, the tenants beat his slave<n id="4" /> and sent him away empty-handed.

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, &#8216;This is the heir; let&#8217;s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!&#8217;

So<n id="1" /> they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.p>

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard,<n id="2" /> and the elders who had come out to get him, &#8220;Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?<n id="3" />