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So he said to the gardener, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find any. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'

And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming year, so much the better, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

But when you are invited, go and recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.' Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you.

And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges and press them to come in, so that my house will be filled!

So he told them this parable, saying,

And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that is coming to me.' So he divided his assets between them.

But he became angry and did not want to go in. So his father came out and began to implore him.

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

I know what I should do, so that when I am removed from the management they will welcome me into their homes!'

And he said, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, ‘Take your promissory note and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.

And he called out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!'

And in addition to all these things, a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able to do so, nor can they cross over from there to us.'

So he said, ‘Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father's house,

for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!'

So the Lord said, "If you have faith like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

So Jesus answered and said, "Were not ten cleansed? And where are the nine?

For just as the lightning shines forth, flashing from one place under heaven to another place under heaven, so the Son of Man will be in his day.

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man—

There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left." And they answered and said to him, "Where, Lord?" So he said to them, "Where the dead body is, there also the vultures will be gathered."