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but they did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem.

At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here!

The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here!

He asked them, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans?

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day."

Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way, because it is impossible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem.'

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

He replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.'

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.'"

So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.'

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'"

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature.

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.

Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.

As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.

He said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been trustworthy in a very small thing, take charge of ten cities.'

for I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man; you take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.'