A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke 19:11-28
While people were listening to Jesus speak, he proceeded to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the Kingdom of God would appear there immediately.
While people were listening to Jesus speak, he proceeded to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the Kingdom of God would appear there immediately.
At that time Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town.
As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening.
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them.
Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.
Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Then he said to his disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee.
Jesus said to the Apostles: “Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’?
Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the one through whom they occur.