So Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”

Now many have undertaken to compile an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

Heal the sick in that town and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come upon you!’

One of the experts in religious law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

He then told them a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.”’

Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand,

Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory.

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

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

Now there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man.

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man.

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,