Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together.

All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

When the disciples saw this, they became indignant and said, “Why this waste?

What is your verdict?” They answered, “He is guilty and deserves death.”

Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:

So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the skins burst and the wine is spilled out and the skins are destroyed. Instead they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved.”

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant

Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

“In Bethlehem of Judea,” they said, “for it is written this way by the prophet:

After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.