Around three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

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

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, someone ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

They said to him, “Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.”

Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied, “Rabbi, let me see again.”

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, today – this very night – before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

But Peter insisted emphatically, “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.” And all of them said the same thing.

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.”

But he denied it: “I don’t even understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

He answered them and said, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”