After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.

To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

“No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light.

Then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son – he is my only child!

But Jesus, realizing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and a divided household falls.

“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

Jesus also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and it does.

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

Then they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt, and had Jesus get on it.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

“And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

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

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.