When they sprout leaves, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near.

“I have come to bring fire on the earth – and how I wish it were already kindled!

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

but they urged him, “Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done.” So he went in to stay with them.

Then he will reply from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.’

As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

So Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.