Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question:

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or naked and clothe you?

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”

The next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.

And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?”

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”