And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.
But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!
I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:
And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.
And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.
But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:
And he said to him, Your brother has come; and your father has had the young ox put to death because he has come back safely.
But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.
But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;
And they made signs to his father, to say what name was to be given to him.
And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.
And his father, Zacharias, was full of the Holy Spirit, and with the voice of a prophet said these words:
The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,
You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,
And I will give you a kingdom as my Father has given one to me,
Father, if it is your pleasure, take this cup from me: but still, let your pleasure, not mine, be done.
And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,
And his father and mother were full of wonder at the things which were said about him.
And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.
And Jesus gave a loud cry and said, Father, into your hands I give my spirit: and when he had said this, he gave up his spirit.
And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
And now I will send to you what my father has undertaken to give you, but do not go from the town, till the power from heaven comes to you.
And when they saw him they were surprised, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? see, your father and I have been looking for you with sorrow.
And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house?
Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
And when he came to the house he did not let any man go in with him, but only Peter and John and James, and the father of the girl and her mother.
And her father and mother were full of wonder, but he gave orders to them to say nothing about it to anyone.
For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
And while he was coming, he was pushed violently down and twisted by the evil spirit. But Jesus gave sharp orders to the unclean spirit, and made the boy well, and gave him back to his father.
And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.
A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.
Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,
For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;
A blessing on the coming kingdom of our father David: Glory in the highest.
And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.
And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.
And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.
But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.
And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: but even so let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
And they made one, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who was going by, coming from the country, go with them, so that he might take his cross.
And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.
For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
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