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"`Father,' cried the son, `I have sinned against Heaven and before you: no longer do I deserve to be called a son of yours.'

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"But the father said to his servants, "`Fetch a good coat quickly--the best one--and put it on him; and bring a ring for his finger and shoes for his feet.

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"Now his elder son was out on the farm; and when he returned and came near home, he heard music and dancing.

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"`Your brother has come,' he replied; `and your father has had the fat calf killed, because he has got him home safe and sound.'

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"Then he was angry and would not go in. But his father came out and entreated him.

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"`All these years,' replied the son, `I have been slaving for you, and I have never at any time disobeyed any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, for me to enjoy myself with my friends;

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but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'

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"`You my dear son,' said the father, `are always with me, and all that is mine is also yours.

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We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"

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He said also to His disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward, about whom a report was brought to him, that he was wasting his property.

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"Then the steward said within himself, "`What am I to do? For my master is taking away the stewardship from me. I am not strong enough for field labour: to beg, I should be ashamed.

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"`A hundred firkins of oil,' he replied. "`Here is your account,' said the steward: `sit down quickly and change it into fifty firkins.'

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"To a second he said, "`And how much do you owe?' "`A hundred quarters of wheat,' was the answer. "`Here is your account,' said he: `change it into eighty quarters.'

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To all this the Pharisees listened, bitterly jeering at Him; for they were lovers of money.

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"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

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But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.

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"There was once a rich man who habitually arrayed himself in purple and fine linen, and enjoyed a splendid banquet every day,

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while at his outer door there lay a beggar, Lazarus by name,

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"But in course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and had a funeral.

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"`Remember, my child,' said Abraham, `that you had all your good things during your lifetime, and that Lazarus in like manner had his bad things. But, now and here, he is receiving consolation and you are in agony.

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"`I entreat you then, father,' said he, `to send him to my father's house.

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"`They have Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; `let them hear them.'

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"`No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; `but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

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"`If they are deaf to Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham, `they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise from the dead.'"

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Jesus said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that causes of stumbling should come; but alas for him through whom they come!

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