“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Jesus said to his disciples, “Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,