In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

Jesus said to his disciples, “Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

Then Jesus went out and made his way, as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, look, here is your son!”

The two were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.

Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what Jesus had said to her.