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

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

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

Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!”

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

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.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Then Jesus went out and made his way, as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

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

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

Then one of them struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear.

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood beside them in dazzling attire.

that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”