“You have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not murder,’ and ‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard reports about Jesus,

When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner,

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed them.

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

and said, “What will you give me to betray him into your hands?” So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

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

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After going in, he sat with the guards to see the outcome.

When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

Now when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,