Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.

Therefore write what you saw, what is, and what will be after these things.

The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things!

After these things I looked, and the temple (the tent of the testimony) was opened in heaven,

I tell you, many will come from the east and west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

“For this reason, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

The disciples said to him, “If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“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.

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.”

(They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.