<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus entered the temple area<n id="2" /> and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts,<n id="3" /> and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

and said to him, &#8220;Do you hear what they are saying?&#8221; Jesus said to them, &#8220;Yes. Have you never read, &#8216;<b><i>Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourselfi>b>&#8217;?&#8221;<n id="1" />

Jesus<n id="1" /> answered them, &#8220;I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

<p class="bodytext">Jesus said to them, &#8220;Have you never read in the scriptures:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<i><b>The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstoneb>.i><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyesi>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">While<n id="1" /> they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, &#8220;Take, eat, this is my body.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus said to them, &#8220;This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>I will strike the shepherd,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.i>b>&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, &#8220;Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw?<n id="1" /> Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet<n id="2" /> you did not arrest me.

But Jesus was silent. The<n id="1" /> high priest said to him, &#8220;I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ,<n id="2" /> the Son of God.&#8221;

Jesus said to him, &#8220;You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man <i>sitting at the right handi><n id="1" /> of the Power<n id="2" /> and <i>coming on the clouds of heaveni>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

At<n id="1" /> about three o&#8217;clock Jesus shouted with a loud voice,<n id="2" /> &#8220;<i>Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?i>&#8221; that is, &#8220;<b><i>My God, my God, why have you forsaken mei>b>?&#8221;<n id="3" />

When Jesus heard this he said to them, &#8220;Those who are healthy don&#8217;t need a physician, but those who are sick do.<n id="1" /> I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.&#8221;p>

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;The wedding guests<n id="2" /> cannot fast while the bridegroom<n id="3" /> is with them, can they?<n id="4" /> As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, &#8220;Who touched my clothes?&#8221;

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to them, &#8220;A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus and his disciples went to the villages of Caesarea Philippi.<n id="1" /> On the way he asked his disciples,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Who do people say that I am?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Six days later<n id="1" /> Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked<n id="1" /> the unclean spirit,<n id="2" /> saying to it, &#8220;Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.&#8221;

But Jesus said, &#8220;Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, &#8220;Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.<n id="1" />

The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Children, how hard it is<n id="2" /> to enter the kingdom of God!