When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.

So the last will be first, and the first last.”

Now when the other ten heard this, they were angry with the two brothers.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave –

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed them.

So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.

After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.

When the disciples saw it they were amazed, saying, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive.”

The boy answered, ‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went.

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds regarded him as a prophet.

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:

The rest seized his slaves, insolently mistreated them, and killed them.

When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

“The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.