Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more except Jesus.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial.

He went away again and prayed the same thing.

But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.

They brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha (which is translated, “Place of the Skull”).

When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

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.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,

But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue ruler, “Do not be afraid; just believe.”