¹³ If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

¹⁶ Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.^(A)

³³ Sell your possessions and give to the poor.^(A) Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven^(B) that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.^(C)

⁷ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.^(A)

¹⁸ I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned^(A) against heaven and against you.

²¹ “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.^(A) I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

¹⁷ It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.^(A)

²⁹ But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

¹³ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast^(A) and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’^(B)

²² When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor,^(A) and you will have treasure in heaven.^(B) Then come, follow me.”