For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

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

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

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

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

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.

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

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

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

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.

And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

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