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

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, answered and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is necessary to work. Therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the day of the Sabbath!"

But the Lord answered and said to him, "Hypocrites! Does not each one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it away to water it?

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside!

But they remained silent. And he took hold of him and healed him, and sent him away.

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.

But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.

But if not, while the other is still far away, he sends an ambassador and asks for terms of peace.

"Now salt is good, but if salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be made salty?

"But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired workers have an abundance of food, and I am dying here from hunger!

And he set out and came to his own father. But while he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

But his father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet!

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!

But when this son of yours returned—who has consumed your assets with prostitutes—you killed the fattened calf for him!'

But he said to him, ‘Child, you are always with me, and everything I have belongs to you.

But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!'"

And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For what is considered exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid.