Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

“Tell the people of Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, unassuming and seated on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.

‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!”

Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.

“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man.

‘No,’ they replied. ‘There won’t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’