Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!

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

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him and lead him away under guard.”)

One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his ear.

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find anything.

But he denied it: “I don’t even understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, “You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean.”

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He replied, “You say so.”

So Pilate spoke to them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call king of the Jews?”

Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them. Then, after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!”

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

There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

John answered them, “The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise.”