because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

So Judas agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus when no crowd was present.

“But look, the hand of the one who betrays me is with me on the table.

When he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”

[Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.

But Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,

but when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice, “Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”