<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The law and the prophets were in force<n id="1" /> until John;<n id="2" /> since then,<n id="3" /> the good news of the kingdom of God<n id="4" /> has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.<n id="5" />

who longed to eat<n id="1" /> what fell from the rich man&#8217;s table. In addition, the dogs<n id="2" /> came and licked<n id="3" /> his sores.p>

(for I have five brothers) to warn<n id="1" /> them so that they don&#8217;t come<n id="2" /> into this place of torment.&#8217;

He<n id="1" /> replied to him, &#8216;If they do not respond to<n id="2" /> Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> said to his disciples, &#8220;Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe<n id="2" /> to the one through whom they come!

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he said to the disciples, &#8220;The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days<n id="2" /> of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

People<n id="1" /> were eating,<n id="2" /> they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage &#8211; right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then<n id="3" /> the flood came and destroyed them all.<n id="4" />

Won&#8217;t<n id="1" /> God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out<n id="2" /> to him day and night?<n id="3" /> Will he delay<n id="4" /> long to help them?

But<n id="1" /> the twelve<n id="2" /> understood none of these things. This<n id="3" /> saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp<n id="4" /> what Jesus meant.<n id="5" />p>

And those who were in front<n id="1" /> scolded<n id="2" /> him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted<n id="3" /> even more, &#8220;Son of David, have mercy on me!&#8221;

And immediately he regained<n id="1" /> his sight and followed Jesus,<n id="2" /> praising<n id="3" /> God. When<n id="4" /> all the people saw it, they too<n id="5" /> gave praise to God.p>

He<n id="1" /> was trying to get a look at Jesus,<n id="2" /> but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.<n id="3" />

Then another<n id="1" /> slave<n id="2" /> came and said, &#8216;Sir, here is<n id="3" /> your mina that I put away for safekeeping<n id="4" /> in a piece of cloth.<n id="5" />

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe<n id="1" /> man. You withdraw<n id="2" /> what you did not deposit<n id="3" /> and reap what you did not sow.&#8217;

And he said to his attendants,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.&#8217;<n id="2" />

&#8216;I tell you that everyone who has will be given more,<n id="1" /> but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.<n id="2" />

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king,<n id="1" /> bring them here and slaughter<n id="2" /> them<n id="3" /> in front of me!&#8217;&#8221;p>

Now<n id="1" /> when he approached Bethphage<n id="2" /> and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives,<n id="3" /> he sent two of the disciples,

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build<n id="1" /> an embankment<n id="2" /> against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

<p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law<n id="2" /> and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate<n id="3" /> him,