The Lord responded: “Write down this message! Record it legibly on tablets, so the one who announces it may read it easily.

Then take some silver and gold to make a crown and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, because the patch will pull away from the garment and the tear will be worse.

and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised.”

“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!

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again.”

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called “The Stone Pavement” (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

A jar full of sour wine was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop and lifted it to his mouth.

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,