Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

For there are three that testify,

So the last will be first, and the first last.”

“The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.

The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

The chief priests and the experts in the law were there, vehemently accusing him.

Both the apostles and the elders met together to deliberate about this matter.

Some were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

All the saints greet you, especially those who belong to Caesar’s household.

For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

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.

They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him

Then they led Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and experts in the law came together.