Jesus began to say to them, “Watch out that no one misleads you.

They were distressed, and one by one said to him, “Surely not I?”

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

Peter began to speak to him, “Look, we have left everything to follow you!”

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.