People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”

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

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

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

Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!”

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

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.

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

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

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

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