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.’

Then they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt, and had Jesus get on it.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

Finally the woman died too.

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”

So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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

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

So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He replied, “You say so.”

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

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

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?