Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

They began to salute him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

He appointed twelve (whom he named apostles), so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach

and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”

Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

Around three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”