There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

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

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.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

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

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.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

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

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?

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

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

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.

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.

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

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?