At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

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

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

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

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

Then one of them struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear.

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

[But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,