because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again &#8211; he was lost and is found!&#8217;<n id="1" /> So<n id="2" /> they began to celebrate.p>

But when this son of yours<n id="1" /> came back, who has devoured<n id="2" /> your assets with prostitutes,<n id="3" /> you killed the fattened calf<n id="4" /> for him!&#8217;

It was appropriate<n id="1" /> to celebrate and be glad, for your brother<n id="2" /> was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

(for I have five brothers) to warn<n id="1" /> them so that they don&#8217;t come<n id="2" /> into this place of torment.&#8217;

It would be better for him to have a millstone<n id="1" /> tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea<n id="2" /> than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.<n id="3" />

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.<n id="1" />

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;

For<n id="1" /> a while he refused, but later on<n id="2" /> he said to himself, &#8216;Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,<n id="3" />

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out<n id="1" /> by her unending pleas.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

<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.

who will not receive many times more<n id="1" /> in this age<n id="2" /> &#8211; and in the age to come, eternal life.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

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" />

But his citizens<n id="1" /> hated<n id="2" /> him and sent a delegation after him, saying, &#8216;We do not want this man<n id="3" /> to be king<n id="4" /> over us!&#8217;

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king,<n id="1" /> bring them here and slaughter<n id="2" /> them<n id="3" /> in front of me!&#8217;&#8221;p>

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.

<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.

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 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;

He will come and destroy<n id="1" /> those tenants and give the vineyard to others.&#8221;<n id="2" /> When the people<n id="3" /> heard this, they said, &#8220;May this never happen!&#8221;<n id="4" />

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" />