“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

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

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

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.

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

When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

“Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”

saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

Now John wore clothing made from camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?