And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

‘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, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]]

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”