Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” And so they took offense at him.

But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment?

And very early on the first day of the week, at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”

Then everyone will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds with great power and glory.

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus into their hands.

He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who dips his hand with me into the bowl.

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”

So Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”

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

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

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

So he went into all of Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.