After fasting forty days and forty nights, He at last felt hungry.

I solemnly say to you, you will never get out at all until you have paid the last penny.

But because He knew their thoughts, He said to them, "Any kingdom that is not united is in the process of destruction, and any city or family that is not united cannot last.

Now if Satan is driving out Satan, he has become disunited; how then can his kingdom last?

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are last now will be first then."

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

and say, 'These last worked only one hour, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us who have borne the heavy burdens and scorching heat of the day.'

Take what belongs to you and go. I want to give this man hired last as much as I do you.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those first will be last."

At last he sent his son to them, for he said to himself, 'They will surely respect my son.'

Last of all, the woman died, too.

At last the rest of the bridesmaids came, and kept begging, 'Master, master, open the door for us!'

but they could not, although many false witnesses came forward to testify. At last two men came forward

Issue an order then to have the tomb closely guarded, so that His disciples cannot come and steal Him and tell the people that He rose from the dead, and the last deception be worse than the first."