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But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him apart, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.

Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?

As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and threw into his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it."

He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'

That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'

"If any man comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.

When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his living to them.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and took his journey into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.