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

But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.

During the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, whomever they wanted.

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

Above his head they put the charge against him, which read: “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”

Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.

And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised.

Now when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.

Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

“Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.