They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Then who can be saved?”

He went away again and prayed the same thing.

When Judas arrived, he went up to Jesus immediately and said, “Rabbi!” and kissed him.

Then they took hold of him and arrested him.

A young man was following him, wearing only a linen cloth. They tried to arrest him,

(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)

They put a purple cloak on him and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

They began to salute him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

They brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha (which is translated, “Place of the Skull”).

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.

Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John.

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked, “Do you see anything?”

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able to do so.”

“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.

When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no one dared any longer to question him.

Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.

After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.