Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

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

and tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

Thus they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

He said, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them,

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’