Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

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

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Philip, however, found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through the area, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples there

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

But now there is nothing more to keep me in these regions, and I have for many years desired to come to you

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches.”

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

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

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.

What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.