The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.

Then I cut the second staff “Binders” in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

He said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate him.

Peter said to him, “Lord, if it is you, order me to come to you on the water.”

Later, the other virgins came too, saying, ‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’

But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!’

After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them.

At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

He appointed twelve (whom he named apostles), so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach

and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,

But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”