For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,