How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

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

saying, “Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

But he denied it in front of them all: “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

He denied it again with an oath, “I do not know the man!”

They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?”

But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.

When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by throwing dice.

Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.

When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.”

Pilate said to them, “Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.”

“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.”

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.