After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

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.”

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.”

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return – whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn –

Going a little farther, he threw himself to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour would pass from him.

Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to tell him.

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him and lead him away under guard.”)

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.”

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, “You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean.”

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.