When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

The next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

Jesus went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them.

Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him.

Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.

Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,

They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.

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

So they went and found a colt tied at a door, outside in the street, and untied it.

They discussed with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.

But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment?

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus into their hands.

They had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.

Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?”