10. “Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
11. When they take you before synagogues and before rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what your defense will be or about what you are to say.
12. For the holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you should say.”
13. Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”
14. He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?”
15. Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.”
16. Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest.