Other seed fell on rock, and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

“Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

Now on the way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.

In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

Then he said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is clean.”)

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

Reverential awe came over everyone, and many wonders and miraculous signs came about by the apostles.

But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets – that his Christ would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way.

angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, led them out, and said,