So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here soon.’”

One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his ear.

The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!”

they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”

Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table.

So Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” He replied, “Say it, Teacher.”

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer.”

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was happening, and he was thoroughly perplexed, because some people were saying that John had been raised from the dead,

They answered, “John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others that one of the prophets of long ago has risen.”

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God.”