A spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions and causes him to foam at the mouth. It hardly ever leaves him alone, torturing him severely.

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

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

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.