Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

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.’”

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

Then one of them struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear.

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”