Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place! For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.

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

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

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

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.

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

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

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.

He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry –

Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

They said, “John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others, one of the prophets.”