Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn, can they, as long as they have the bridegroom with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

"A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes.

but the boat was already a long way from shore, and was being tossed by the waves, for the wind was against them.

And Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving and perverted people of the times! How long can I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

But if the slave is bad and says to himself, 'My master is going to be gone a long time,'

"For it is just like a man who was going on a long journey from his homeland, who called to him his slaves and turned his property over to them.

He gave one five thousand dollars, another two thousand, another one thousand, to each in accordance with his ability. Then he started on his long journey.

After a long time the master of those slaves came back and settled accounts with them.