<p class="bodytext">Then,<n id="1" /> when it was evening, he came to the house<n id="2" /> with the twelve.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Right away, while Jesus<n id="1" /> was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived.<n id="2" /> With him came a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and experts in the law<n id="3" /> and elders.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> they sent some of the Pharisees<n id="2" /> and Herodians<n id="3" /> to trap him with his own words.<n id="4" />

When the experts in the law<n id="1" /> and the Pharisees<n id="2" /> saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, &#8220;Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer<n id="3" /> many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law,<n id="4" /> and be killed, and after three days rise again.

It is like a mustard seed<n id="1" /> that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.<n id="2" />

She answered, &#8220;Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children&#8217;s crumbs.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> went out again from the region of Tyre<n id="3" /> and came through Sidon<n id="4" /> to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> as they approached Jerusalem,<n id="2" /> near Bethphage<n id="3" /> and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives,<n id="4" /> Jesus<n id="5" /> sent two of his disciples

At harvest time he sent a slave<n id="1" /> to the tenants to collect from them<n id="2" /> his portion of the crop.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In his teaching Jesus<n id="1" /> also said, &#8220;Watch out for the experts in the law.<n id="2" /> They like walking<n id="3" /> around in long robes and elaborate greetings<n id="4" /> in the marketplaces,

Now some of the experts in the law<n id="1" /> were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> they came to the other side of the lake, to the region of the Gerasenes.<n id="2" />

Then<n id="1" /> they asked Jesus<n id="2" /> to leave their region.

for she kept saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.&#8221;<n id="2" />

and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> the Pharisees<n id="2" /> and some of the experts in the law<n id="3" /> who came from Jerusalem<n id="4" /> gathered around him.

<p class="bodyblock">Having no regard<n id="1" /> for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.&#8221;<n id="2" />

After singing a hymn,<n id="1" /> they went out to the Mount of Olives.p>