Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel,

and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”

But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.

As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today.”

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads

The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.

Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

I tell you the truth, people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter.

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him.