They were distressed, and one by one said to him, “Surely not I?”

Peter said to him, “Even if they all fall away, I will not!”

He went away again and prayed the same thing.

Many gave false testimony against him, but their testimony did not agree.

During the feast it was customary to release one prisoner to the people, whomever they requested.

Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom.

(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.

They began to salute him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

They brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha (which is translated, “Place of the Skull”).

They offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

The inscription of the charge against him read, “The king of the Jews.”

She went out and told those who were with him, while they were mourning and weeping.

And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

They were all amazed so that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.”

He told him, “See that you do not say anything to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

But no one is able to enter a strong man’s house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.