"Now if God so clothe the grass in the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

"And they all, without exception, proceeded to excuse themselves. The first told him. 'I have bought a field, and must needs go and see it. Pray have me excused.'

"So they began to make merry. But his elder son was in the field, and as he drew near to the house he heard music and dancing,

"But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he is come in from the field, 'Come at once, sit down to dinner,'

"On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside, let him not go down to take them away; nor should a man in the field turn back.