11. Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.
12. For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.”
13. Someone from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14. “Friend,” He said to him, “who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you? ”
15. He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”
16. Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.
17. He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops?
18. I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there.
19. Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.” ’
20. “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared — whose will they be? ’
21. “That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
22. Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.
23. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.
24. Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?
25. Can any of you add a cubit to his height by worrying?
26. If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?