Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?

When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching,

“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

Other seeds fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked them.

His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

And whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me.

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’

And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many.

So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door.

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfumed oil, and she poured it on his head as he was at the table.

When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

In reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”

He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”