So he called one of the slaves and asked what was happening.

Then some of the experts in the law answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”

until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

and saying, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!”

There was also an inscription over him, “This is the king of the Jews.”

They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

“I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God’s angels.

As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

“Beware of the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

For Peter and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken,

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked it.

while others were saying that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had risen.

Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

But some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, he casts out demons.”