Herod said, “I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.

Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

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

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

So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

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

So they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?”

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

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

[But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

So they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No!”