“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.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

Then they said to him, “John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”

and those who suffered from unclean spirits were cured.

So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Then Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.