Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

After a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said, “You really are one of them too – even your accent gives you away!”

Then Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.”

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

Now when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw how he died, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices so that they might go and anoint him.

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and the demonic spirits begged Jesus to let them go into them. He gave them permission.

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God.

I tell you, he will give them justice speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”