If David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

So Pilate spoke to them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call king of the Jews?”

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

The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

Then he cried out with a loud voice, “Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God – do not torment me!”

When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.”

Then he began to teach them and said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”