Woe to you who are well-fed (gorged, satiated) now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now [enjoying a life of self-indulgence], for you will mourn and weep [and deeply long for God].

Give to everyone who asks of you. Whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to do without and be in need.

And besides all this, between us and you [people] a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to come over from here to you will not be able, and none may cross over from there to us.’

“What do you want Me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me regain my sight!”

But his citizens [the residents of his new kingdom] hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be a king over us.’

[The king ended by saying,] ‘But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence.’”

for they all put in gifts from their abundance; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

They asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare it?”