(Now there were about twelve men in all.)

“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves!

Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my colaborers, greet you too.

For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

Then a voice came from the throne, saying: “Praise our God all you his servants, and all you who fear Him, both the small and the great!”

When Jesus heard this he said, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.

Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?”

They answered, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

The next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Both those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!

“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”