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As he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table.

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Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to his disciples first, “Be on your guard

He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.

“But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored

“So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

“Then the master told the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

Now great crowds were traveling with him. So he turned and said to them:

So he told them this parable:

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion.

So he summoned one of the servants, questioning what these things meant.

“Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management,

I know what I’ll do so that when I’m removed from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first one.

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine?

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

For as the lightning flashes from horizon to horizon and lights up the sky, so the Son of Man will be in his day.