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But they were not able to answer him about this.

But they all began, one after another, to make excuses. The first one told the servant, ‘I have bought a field and must go and look at it; please accept my apologies.'

Soon the servant said, ‘Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is room for more.'

‘You began to build but can't finish the job!' they will say.

"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, there is no way to make it salty again.

He wished he could fill himself with the bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.

But the father called to his servants. ‘Hurry!' he said. ‘Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.

For this son of mine was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.' And so the feasting began.

But he spoke back to his father, ‘Look, all these years I have worked for you like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!

But this son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes, and when he comes back home, you kill the prize calf for him!'

But we had to celebrate and be happy, because your brother was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.'"

Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who make yourselves look right in other people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For the things that are considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with.

But Abraham said, ‘Remember, my son, that in your lifetime you were given all the good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. But now he is enjoying himself here, while you are in pain.

The rich man answered, ‘That is not enough, father Abraham! But if someone were to rise from death and go to them, then they would turn from their sins.'

But Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone were to rise from death.'"

Jesus said to his disciples, "Things that make people fall into sin are bound to happen, but how terrible for the one who makes them happen!

Then he said to the disciples, "The time will come when you will wish you could see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

There will be those who will say to you, ‘Look, over there!' or, ‘Look, over here!' But don't go out looking for it.

But first he must suffer much and be rejected by the people of this day.