For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

Then the slave said, ‘Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.’

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

He fell with his face to the ground at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (Now he was a Samaritan.)

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

So Jesus said to them, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory.

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.”

But Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”