And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

But the other rebuked him, saying, “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?”