If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!

Then the Lord provoked their adversaries to attack them, he stirred up their enemies –

Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel.

They set out to go to Egypt to get away from the Babylonians, but stopped at Geruth Kimham near Bethlehem.

I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the sovereign Lord.

At that time, I will destroy the military power of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”

The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead – he who starts a town by unjust deeds.

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve them.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

The next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

The expert in religious law said, “The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Martha said, “I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.”

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

Then they cast lots for them, and the one chosen was Matthias; so he was counted with the eleven apostles.