Then they sat down and kept guard over him there.

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to heal him.”

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds regarded him as a prophet.

When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”

From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,

When they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted.

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

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

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him!”)

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help:

Now when Jesus saw a large crowd around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake.

So they came and woke him up saying, “Lord, save us! We are about to die!”

But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region.

Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate him.

But he sternly warned them not to make him known.