Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!”

On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.”

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders let them go.

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

And the demonic spirits begged him, “Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them.”

Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!”

“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

He replied, “Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.”

Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied, “Rabbi, let me see again.”

He said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.”

So Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters – one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”

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And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”

then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.