Quotes about Expectation
What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
— Luke 7:26
When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.
— Luke 8:40
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
— Luke 11:12
You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
— Luke 12:40
But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
— Luke 12:45
The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
— Luke 12:46
Then Jesus said to the crowds, “As soon as you see a cloud rising in the west, you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and that is what happens.
— Luke 12:54
And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.
— Luke 12:55
Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.
— Luke 13:6
So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
— Luke 13:7
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
— Luke 15:29
Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’?
— Luke 17:8