They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.

“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Then he will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’

Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

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

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.

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”

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

(They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

He proclaimed, “One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.”