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

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?”

so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Then Jesus said to him, “See that you do not speak to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

When Jesus heard this he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!

Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. After he sat down his disciples came to him.

Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Then an expert in the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, who is to come.

He will not quarrel or cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”