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And they all to a man, began to excuse themselves. The first said to him: I have bought a field, and am constrained to go out and see it. I pray thee, allow me to be excused.

For, this my son was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

And I also say to you: Make to yourselves friends, with this unrighteous mammon; so that when it is finished, they may receive you to their everlasting tabernacles.

And the Pharisees, when they heard all these things, because they loved money, derided him.

And with all these, there is a great barrier between us and you; so that they who would pass from here to you, cannot; neither [fn] pass from there to us

for I have five brothers; that he may go and protest to them; lest they also come to this place of torment.

Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.

Abraham said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, they will not believe, though one should rise from the dead.

And Jesus said to his disciples: It cannot be, but that offences will come: but woe to him, by whom they come.

And when he drew near to enter a certain village, there met him ten leprous men; and they stood at a distance,

And when he had looked upon them, he said to them: Go, show yourselves to the priests. And as they were going, they were cleansed.

And Jesus answered, and said: Were they not ten who were cleansed? Where are the nine?

Have they so gone as not to come and give glory to God; except this one, who is of another nation?

And they will not say: Behold, here it is! or, Behold, it is there! For lo, the kingdom of God is within you

And if they shall say to you: Lo, here he is! or, Lo, there he is! go not forth.

They ate and drank, they took wives and were given to husbands, until the day that Noah entered the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed every one.

And again, as it was in the days of Lot; they ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and built.

They answered, and said to him: Whither, our Lord? He said to them: Where the body is, there will the eagles assemble themselves.

And he spake this similitude, against certain persons, who had confidence in themselves that they were righteous, and despised every one.

And they brought to him infants, that he might touch them: and his disciples saw them, and rebuked them.