<p class="bodytext">After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.p>

for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.&#8221;

Then<n id="1" /> they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks<n id="2" /> on it, and he sat on it.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> one of the experts in the law<n id="2" /> came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus<n id="3" /> answered them well, he asked him, &#8220;Which commandment is the most important of all?&#8221;

While they were at the table<n id="1" /> eating, Jesus said, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="2" /> one of you eating with me will betray me.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said, &#8220;Take it. This is my body.&#8221;

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open.<n id="1" /> And they did not know what to tell him.

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, &#8220;You must be<n id="1" /> one of them, because you are also a Galilean.&#8221;

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, &#8220;Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

People<n id="1" /> from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem<n id="2" /> were going out to him, and he was baptizing them<n id="3" /> in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

After looking around<n id="1" /> at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts,<n id="2" /> he said to the man, &#8220;Stretch out your hand.&#8221; He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.<n id="3" />

He said to them, &#8220;Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>This people honors me with their lips,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>but their hearti>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>is far from meb>.i>p>

<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">As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said<n id="1" /> to them, &#8220;Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius<n id="2" /> and let me look at it.&#8221;

Then he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]p>