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When the time came for the banquet, he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come! Everything is ready!'

If he hasn't, then while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation to inquire about terms for peace.

It is fit for neither soil nor manure — people throw it out. Those who have ears that can hear, let them hear!"

For this son of mine was dead, but now he's alive again! He was lost, but now he has been found!' And they began celebrating.

‘Look,' the son answered, ‘I have worked for you all these years, and I have never disobeyed your orders. But you have never even given me a young goat, so that I could celebrate with my friends.

Yet this son of yours comes, who squandered your property with prostitutes, and for him you slaughter the fattened calf!'

So he summoned him and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in your accounts, for you can no longer be manager.'

‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,' he replied. ‘Take your note back,' he told him. ‘Now, quickly! Sit down and write one for four hundred!'

To the next he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?' ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,' he replied. ‘Take your note back and write one for eight hundred.'

"And the employer of this dishonest manager applauded him for acting so shrewdly! For the worldly have more sekhel than those who have received the light — in dealing with their own kind of people!

"Now what I say to you is this: use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it gives out, you may be welcomed into the eternal home.

No servant can be slave to two masters, for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can't be a slave to both God and money."

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the Torah to become void.

No, you'll say, ‘Get my supper ready, dress for work, and serve me until I have finished eating and drinking; after that, you may eat and drink.'

For a long time he refused; but after awhile, he said to himself, ‘I don't fear God, and I don't respect other people;

I tell you, this man went down to his home right with God rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."

Yeshua looked at him and said, "How hard it is for people with wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!

It's easier for a camel to pass through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!"

Yeshua answered them, "Yes! I tell you that everyone who has left house, wife, brothers, parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

For he will be handed over to the Goyim and be ridiculed, insulted and spat upon.