At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

When he saw them he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went along, they were cleansed.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

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,

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.