just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

But one of those with Jesus grabbed his sword, drew it out, and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his ear.

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

Both those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!