“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

“So when you see the abomination of desolation – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’

For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After going in, he sat with the guards to see the outcome.

and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away.