The disciples said to him, “If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

Now someone came up to him and said, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to gain eternal life?”

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

Jesus stopped, called them, and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he had nothing to say.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Peter said to him, “If they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away!”

Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”

Immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi,” and kissed him.

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”

As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by throwing dice.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:

But Jesus met them, saying, “Greetings!” They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him.

He told them, “It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you.”