If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”

And the king will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

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

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 Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

But Simon replied, “You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

especially saddened by what he had said, that they were not going to see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Paul replied, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.’”