The New English Bible; 31; Luke 13:22-Luke 16:31

the gospel according to look chapter thirteen verse twenty two journeys hand and counters he continued his dna through towns and villages teaching as he made his way towards jerusalem someone asked him sir and only a few to be saved his answer was struggled to get in through the narrow door when i tell you that many will try to enter and not be able when once the master of the house has got up and walked in the door you made stand outside and knock and say sir letters in but he will only answer i do not know where you come from then you will begin to say we set a table with you and you've talked in our streets but he will

repeat i tell you i do not know where you come from a dove my side or a view you and your wicked ways there will be waving and grinding of teeth there when you see abraham isaac and jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of god and your sales throw around from the east and waste people will come from north and south for the feast in the kingdom of god yes and someone who are now lost would be first and seven were first will be lost at that time a number of fantasies came to him and said you should leave this place and go on your wavy hair and is out to kill you he replied

go and teo that faux listen to date and tomorrow i shall be casting out devils and working two hours on the fed d i reach my goal however i must be on my week today and tomorrow and the next day because it is unthinkable for a profit to meet his days anywhere but in jerusalem or jerusalem jerusalem the city that murders the profits some stones the messenger is sent to her how often have i mourned to gather your children as a haven gathers have brewed under her wings but you would not let me look through there is your tempo forsaken by god

and i tell you you shall never seen me until the time comes when you say blessings on him little comes in the name of the lord one sabbath he went to have a new in the house of a leading fantasy and they were watching him closely there in front of him was a man suffering from drops eight jesus i asked the lawyers and the pharmacies is it permitted to cure people on the sabbath or not they said nothing so we took the man killed him and sent him away maybe turned to them and said it one of you as a donkey or adults and it flows into a whale we hesitate to haul it up on the sabbath be to this they could find no reply you know just how the guests were trying to secure

the places of honor he spoke to them in a bubble when you were asked by someone to a wedding feast do not sit down in the place of honor it may be that some person more distinguished than yourself has been invited and the post will come and say to you give this man your seat then you work forty shows you begin to take the lowest place no when you receive an invitation go and sit down and the lowest place so that when your host comes he will say come up high at my friend then all your fellow guests will see that respect in which you are held for everyone who exults in self will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted then he said to his host when you give a lunch or

dinner party do not invite your friends your brothers are other relations or you're rich neighbors they will only ask you back again and so you will be repaid but when you give a party i ask the poor that crippled the lame and the blind and so find happiness for they have no means of rebate you but you will be repaid on the day when the good men rise from the dead and one of the company after hearing all this said to him happy the man who show sit at the feast in the kingdom of god jesus arm said a man was giving a big bit of body and had sent out many invitations at dinnertime he said to seven with a message for his guests please come everything is now

already they began one and all to excuse themselves the first say and i have bought a piece of land and i must go and look it over please accept my apologies the city of satan i have five your thoughts and i am on my way to drive them out please accept my apologies the next say and i have just got monitored and for that reason i cannot come when the servant a bag he reported this to his mustard a mustard of the house was angry and said to him go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring me in the pool at the crippled the blind and the lead the servants to serve your readers have been carried out and there is still

roam the master replied quote on to the highways and along the hedge rows and make them come in i want my house to be fooled i tell you that not one of those who weren't invited show taste my banquet once when grape groves when accompanying him he turned to them and said if anyone comes to be and does not heat his father and mother wife and children brothers and sisters even his own life he cannot be a disciple of mind no one who does not carry this cross and come with me cabbie a disciple of mine would any of you think of building a tower on without first sitting down and calculating the cost to see whether

he could afford to finish it otherwise if he has made its foundation and then is not able to complete it only on who grows will laugh at him there is the man they will say who started to build and could not finish or what pig will march the battle against another team without first sitting down to consider whether with ten thousand men he could face an enemy coming to meet him with twenty thousand if he cannot ban long before the enemy approach is he stands it avoids and asks for deterrence so also not have you can be a disciple of mine without taking leave awful oh his possessions salt is a good thing but it's all to itself becomes tasteless what will you

use to seize that it is useless event on the land or on the dung heap it can only be thrown away if you have ears to hear with hear another time the tax gathers and other bad characters were or are crowding in to listen to him and the father sees and the doctors a little again grumbling among themselves this fellow they said welcome centers and eats with them he on set them with this problem is one of us a hundred sheep and loses one of them does he not leave the ninety nine in the open posture and go after the missing one until he has founded how delighted he is then he lifts it onto his shoulders and homey goes to call his friends and neighbors together rejoice with me he cries i

have found my lost sheep in the same way i tell you there will be greater joy in have them over one similar events and over ninety nine right choice people who do not need to repent or again if a woman has dan silver pieces and loses one of them that she not like a lamb sweep out the house and look in every corner till she has founded and when she has she calls her friends and neighbors together and says rejoice with me i have found the piece that i lost in the same way i tell you that is joy among the angels of god over one center who repents and then he said there was once a man who had two sons and the younger said to his father

father give me my share of the property so he divided his estate between them a few days later the younger son ten the horribly share into cash and left home for a distant country where he squandered it in reckless living he had spent a door when a city of famine fail upon that country and he began to feel the pinch so he went and attached to itself to one of the local landowners who sent him on to his farm to mind the pigs he would have been to head to feel is barely with the port's that the pigs were beating and no one gave him anything then he came to his senses and said how many of my father's speed savants have more food than they can eat and he and i my starving

to death i will set off and go to my father and say to him father i have sinned against god and against you i am no longer fit to be called your son treated me as one of your pained servants so he set out for his father's house but while he was still a law we all for his father saw him and his heart went out to him he ran to meet him from his arms around him and kissed him the son said father i have sinned against god and against you i am no longer fit to be called your son but the father said to his severance quick fitzgerald my best one and put it on him put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet bring the fatted calf and do it and let us have a feast to celebrate the date

for this son of mine was dead and has come back to life he was lost and is found and the festivities began know the eldest son was out on the farm and on his way back as he approached the house he had music and dancing he called one of the severance and i asked him what it meant the seven told him your brother has come home and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has embed safe and sound but he was angry and refuse to go in his father came out and pleaded with him but you've reported you know i have say leave for you all these years i never once disobeyed your orders and you never gave me so much as a kid for a feast with my friends but now that this sub of yours time's up

after running through your money with his woman you killed the fatted calf find him my boy said the father you or was with me and everything i have is yours who could we help celebrating this happy day your brother here was dead and has come back to life was lost and his file he said to his disciples that was a rich man who had a belief and he received complaints that this man was squandering the property so he sent for him and said what is this that i hear produce your accounts so you can't be a manager here any longer the bill is said to himself what am i to do know that my employer is dismissing me i'm not strong enough to dig them too proud to beg i know what i must do

to make sure that when i have to leave there will be people to give me a house and whoa he summoned his master's death those one by one to the thirsty said how much do you will my master he replied as those in gallons of olive oil he said here is your account sit down and make it five hundred and be quick about it many said to another and you how much do you owe he said a thousand bushels of wheat and restored take your account and make it eight hundred and the master applauded the dishonest believe for editing so astutely for the worldly are more astute though the otherworldly in dealing with their own kind so i say to you you lose your

worldly wealth to win friends for yourselves so that when money is a thing of the past you may be deceived into an eternal home the man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted to also integrate and the man who is this artist in little things is does honest also in great things if then you have not proven test was eight with the wealth of this world who will trust you with the wells that is real and if you have proved untrustworthy with one belongs to another who will give you what is your old know severed can be the slave of two masters for either he will keep the first and love the second or he will be devoted to the first and think nothing of the second you cannot set of broad and money the pharmacies

who love my hair door of this and scoffed at him he said to them you are the people who embrace your fellow band with your righteousness but god sees through you for what sets itself up to be admired by dan is detestable in the sight of god and to join it was the law and the prophets since then that is the good news of the kingdom of god and everyone forces his way in it is easier for heaven on death to come to an end and for one doctor or stroke of the low to lose its force a man who divorces his wife and mine is another commits adultery and anyone who might raise a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery

there was once a rich man who dressed in bravo and the finest linen and feasted in great modernist assumes every day at his gate covered with sores lee a poor man named lazarus who would have been dead to satisfy is hunger with the scraps from the rich man's table even the dogs used to come and lick his soul is one date the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with a brown the rich man also died and was buried and in hades where he was important he looked up and they're far away was a broom with lazarus close beside him abraham my father he called don't take pity on me say and lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue

nobody in this fire but abrams said remember my job that all the good things fail to you while you were alive and all the bed to lazarus no he has his consultations here and it is you who are in agony but that is not all that is a great chasm fixed between us no one from our side who wants to reach you come across it and none may pass from your side to us then father he replied what you send him to my father's house when i have five brothers to warn them so that they too may not come to this place of torment but abrams said they of moses' have the profits let them listen to

them no father a broom he replied but if someone from the date and visits them they were paid a grandma said if they do not listen to moses and the profits they will create no heed even if someone should rise from the dead reading has concluded with effective first vests of the sixteenth chapter of the gospel according to look fb