Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They replied, “Seven.”

But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.

But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”

In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded those who brought them.

They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Then who can be saved?”

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Now when the other ten heard this, they became angry with James and John.

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

None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Then they took hold of him and arrested him.

(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

and all who heard it were astonished at what the shepherds said.

For my eyes have seen your salvation

Now Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem every year for the feast of the Passover.