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For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, answered and was saying to the crowd, "There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher'; then you will have honor in the sight of all who recline at the table with you.

And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the fences, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

So He told them this parable, saying,

And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.' So he divided his wealth between them.

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

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

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and never have I neglected a command of yours. And yet never have you given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends.

I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the stewardship people will take me into their homes.'

And I say to you, make friends for yourselves from the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will take you into the eternal dwellings.

And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'

And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you are not able, and none may cross over from there to us.'

for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.

And just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

And they were bringing even their babies to Him so that He would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they were rebuking them.

And those who went ahead were rebuking him so that he would be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

So he ran on before and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way.