Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

Then they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt, and had Jesus get on it.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

“And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

So he said to them, “You foolish people – how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.