truly I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last halfpenny of your debt.

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

Many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.

Now when evening came the master of the vineyard said to his bailiff, 'Summon the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.'

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

Take what belongs to you and be off. I choose to give this last man the same as you.

So shall the last be first and the first last."

Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you.

but they could find none, although a number of false witnesses came forward. However, two men came forward at last