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For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate.

But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!'

"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.

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.

On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.

"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don't fear God or care what people think,

And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."

People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.

But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

"Truly I tell you," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

"What do you want me to do for you?" "Lord, I want to see," he replied.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."