“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

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.

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

Jesus replied, “You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”

And after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”

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

So Judas obtained a squad of soldiers and some officers of the chief priests and Pharisees. They came to the orchard with lanterns and torches and weapons.

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.

and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.

And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage,