Jesus says in Luke 21:11 that there will be plagues. Both Ezekiel and Jeremiah speak of God sending plagues, for example, in Ezek. 14:21 and 33:27, and Jer. 21:6, 7 and 9.
Now he tells the longest and most famous of the parables: The Parable of the Prodigal Son, or the Lost Son. May we find...
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord ...
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you...