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Luke 21,5-19

When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine stonework and votive offerings, he said,  ‘All these things you are staring at now — the timewill come when not a single stone will be left on another; everything will be destroyed.’  And they put to him this question, ‘Master,’ they said, ‘when will this happen, then, and what sign will there be that it is about to take place?’  But he said, ‘Take care not to be deceived, because many will come using my name and saying, “I am the one” and “The time is near at hand.” Refuse to join them… Read more »

Luke 18,1-8

Then he told them a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.  ‘There was a judge in a certain town,’ he said, ‘who had neither fear of God nor respect for anyone.  In the same town there was also a widow who kept on coming to him and saying, “I want justice from you against my enemy!”  For a long time he refused, but at last he said to himself, “Even though I have neither fear of God nor respect for any human person,  I must give this widow her just rights since she keeps pestering me, or she will come and slap me in the face.” ‘  And the Lord said, ‘You notice what the unjust judge has to say?   … Read more »

Luke 17,26-37

‘As it was in Noah’s day, so will it also be in the days of the Son of man.  People were eating and drinking, marrying wives and husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all.  It will be the same as it was in Lot’s day: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,  but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and it destroyed them all.   … Read more »

Luke 17,20-25

Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, he gave them this answer, ‘The coming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation and there will be no one to say, “Look, it is here! Look, it is there!” For look, the kingdom of God is among you.’  He said to the disciples, ‘A time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of man and will not see it.   … Read more »

Luke 17,11-19

Now it happened that on the way to Jerusalem he was travelling in the borderlands of SamariaGod at the top of his voice and threw himself prostrate at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan. This led Jesus to say, ‘Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they? … Read more »

John 2,13-22

When the time of the Jewish Passover was near Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there. Making a whip out of cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, sheep and cattle as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over  and said to the dove sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop using my Father’s house as a market.’  Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: I am eaten up with zeal for your house… Read more »

Luke 17,1-6

He said to his disciples, ‘Causes of falling are sure to come, but alas for the one through whom they occur!  It would be better for such a person to be thrown into the sea with a millstone round the neck than to be the downfall of a single one of these little ones.  Keep watch on yourselves! … Read more »

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Luke 20,27-38

Some Sadducees – those who argue that there is no resurrection – approached him and they put this question to him,  ‘Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man’s married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother… Read more »

Luke 16,9-15

‘And so I tell you this: use money, tainted as it is, to win you friends, and thus make sure that when it fails you, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.  Anyone who is trustworthy in little things is trustworthy in great; anyone who is dishonest in little things is dishonest in great.  If then you are not trustworthy with money, that tainted thing, who will trust you with genuine riches?   … Read more »

Luke 16,1-8

He also said to his disciples, ‘There was a rich man and he had a steward who was denounced to him for being wasteful with his property.  He called for the man and said, “What is this I hear about you? Draw me up an account of your stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer.”  Then the steward said to himself, “Now that my master is taking the stewardship from me, what am I to do? … Read more »