After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

He denied it again with an oath, “I do not know the man!”

and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”

But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.

They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “Place of the Skull”)

Then two outlaws were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.

So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

The whole town gathered by the door.

Now after some days, when he returned to Capernaum, the news spread that he was at home.

Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.

Now some of the experts in the law were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:

For this reason the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.

But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.