Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!

Then the Lord became zealous for his land; he had compassion on his people.

In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

Bunch yourselves together like straw, you undesirable nation,

The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!

all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”

For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord who rules over all.

Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.

Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”

This fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet:

Now when Jesus finished these parables, he moved on from there.

After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces, and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’

I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things!

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,