For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

“Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!”

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ’s name will never lose his reward.

What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be destroyed. Instead new wine is poured into new wineskins.”

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”

The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.