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"And he said to the vineyard-keeper, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?'

"And he answered and said to him, 'Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;

And there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not straighten up at all.

"And this woman, a daughter of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years, should she not have been released from this bond on the Sabbath day?"

"Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Just at that time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, "Go away, leave here, for Herod wants to kill You."

"Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,

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

and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for everything is ready now.'

"Another one said, 'I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.'

'For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste of my dinner.'"

"For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

"Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

"It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

"And 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!'

"When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!'

"So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.