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Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.

"Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them.

Because of this, God in his wisdom said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.'

"Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?

Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, "There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath."

He said to them, "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

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

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' "

So he called him in and asked him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.'

"The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'

Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?

nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you."

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "

When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth.

He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd.

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

While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.