³¹ And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours.

¹³ But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny?

¹⁴ Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you.

¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?

¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

²⁷ And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.

²⁸ But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

²² He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

²³ Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?

⁴ Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

¹ So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

³⁵ Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?