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Don't keep striving for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don't be anxious.

For the Gentile world eagerly seeks all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

"But seek His kingdom, and these things will be provided for you.

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won't grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

"Be ready for service and have your lamps lit.

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

"Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

And He told this parable: "A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?'

a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years—shouldn't she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"

once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us!' He will answer you, ‘I don't know you or where you're from.'

Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves:

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will enjoy my banquet!'"

"For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

If not, while the other is still far off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.