Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’

Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

and if I ask you, you will not answer.

Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

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,

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Then he will reply from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.’

Won’t the master instead say to him, ‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’?

While the people were listening to these things, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.

that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,