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so that on this generation will fall the responsibility for all the prophets' blood that has been shed since the world was established,

Meanwhile, as a crowd in the tens of thousands gathered so closely as to trample each other down, Yeshua began to say to his talmidim first, "Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim, by which I mean their hypocrisy.

like people waiting for their master's return after a wedding feast; so that when he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him without delay.

His answer to them was, "Do you think that just because they died so horribly, these folks from the Galil were worse sinners than all the others from the Galil?

So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘Here, I've come looking for fruit on this fig tree for three years now without finding any. Cut it down — why let it go on using up the soil?'

But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, "There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!"

So he went on to say, "What is the Kingdom of God like? With what will we compare it?

But they said nothing. So, taking hold of him, he healed him and sent him away.

Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the least important place; so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Go on up to a better seat.' Then you will be honored in front of everyone sitting with you.

Still another said, ‘I have just gotten married, so I can't come.'

The master said to the slave, ‘Go out to the country roads and boundary walls, and insistently persuade people to come in, so that my house will be full.

"So every one of you who doesn't renounce all that he has cannot be my talmid.

So he told them this parable:

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will be mine.' So the father divided the property between them.

"So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

So he got up and started back to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.

So he called one of the servants and asked, ‘What's going on?'

But the older son became angry and refused to go inside. "So his father came out and pleaded with him.

‘Look,' the son answered, ‘I have worked for you all these years, and I have never disobeyed your orders. But you have never even given me a young goat, so that I could celebrate with my friends.

So he summoned him and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in your accounts, for you can no longer be manager.'