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“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”
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Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
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He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
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“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
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The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
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“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!
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I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
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But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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“‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.
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So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
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“He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family,
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And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,
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“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
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Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
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I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
