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Those servants are happy when their owner finds them watching when he comes. For sure, I tell you, he will be dressed and ready to care for them. He will have them seated at the table.

For sure, I tell you, he will make him boss over all he has.

The owner of that servant will come on a day and at an hour when he is not looking for him. He will cut him in pieces and will put him with those who do not believe.

"The servant who knew what the owner wanted done, but did not get ready for him, or did not do what he wanted done, will be beaten many times.

Why do you not know for yourselves what is right?

No, I tell you. But unless you are sorry for your sins and turn from them, you too will all die.

No, I tell you. But unless you are sorry for your sins and turn from them, you too will all die."

Then He told them this picture-story: "A man had a fig tree in his grape-field. He looked for fruit on it but found none.

He said to his servant, ‘See! For three years I have been coming here looking for fruit on this fig tree. I never find any. Cut it down. Why does it even waste the ground?'

A woman was there who had suffered for eighteen years because of a demon. She was not able to stand up straight.

Should not this Jewish woman be made free from this trouble on the Day of Rest? She has been chained by Satan for eighteen years."

When He said this, all those who were against Him were ashamed. All the many people were glad for the great things being done by Him.

But I must go on My way today and tomorrow and the day after. One who speaks for God cannot die except at Jerusalem.

The one who asked both of you to come may say to you, ‘The important seat is for this man.' Then you will be ashamed as you take the last place.

Then Jesus said to the man who asked Him to eat in his house, "When you have a supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your family or your rich neighbors. They will ask you to come to their place for a supper. That way you will be paid back for what you have done.

Another one said, ‘I have bought ten cows to use for working in my fields. I must go and try them out. Do not expect me to come.'

"If any man comes to Me and does not have much more love for Me than for his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be My follower.

It is no good for the field or the waste place. Men throw it away. You have ears, then listen!"

"What if one of you had one hundred sheep and you lost one of them? Would you not leave the ninety-nine in the country and go back and look for the one which was lost until you find it?

I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven because of one sinner who is sorry for his sins and turns from them, than for ninety-nine people right with God who do not have sins to be sorry for.