But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

Then they went to Capernaum. When the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.

because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”

and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

She went out and told those who were with him, while they were mourning and weeping.

They went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

They were all amazed so that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.”

Then he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.

So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” So they spoke angrily to her.