Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.

Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy.

And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’

And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.

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

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

For the one who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

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.

(They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)