But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded those who brought them.

He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.

He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

If David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, right at the door.

A young man was following him, wearing only a linen cloth. They tried to arrest him,

So Pilate asked him again, “Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!”

So Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”

So Pilate spoke to them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call king of the Jews?”

So the soldiers led him into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called together the whole cohort.

They brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha (which is translated, “Place of the Skull”).

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.

And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

They went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the holy place of the Lord and burn incense.