For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law – were mocking him among themselves: “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

and as they sailed he fell asleep. Now a violent windstorm came down on the lake, and the boat started filling up with water, and they were in danger.

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

But when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he takes away the first man’s armor on which the man relied and divides up his plunder.

But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem?

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

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When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’