In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

Jesus said to his disciples, “Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

“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.

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

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

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.

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

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.