But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

He came to a town called Nazareth and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.

But he refused. Instead, he went out and threw him in prison until he repaid the debt.

and saying, “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”

But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

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

Then the entire town came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

The disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave –

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.