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" />

Going a little farther, he threw himself to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour would pass from him.

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet<n id="1" /> you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that<n id="2" /> the scriptures would be fulfilled.&#8221;

Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them. Then,<n id="1" /> after he had Jesus flogged,<n id="2" /> he handed him over<n id="3" /> to be crucified.p>

When they had finished mocking<n id="1" /> him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then<n id="2" /> they led him away to crucify him.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The soldiers<n id="1" /> forced<n id="2" /> a passerby to carry his cross,<n id="3" /> Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country<n id="4" /> (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

Let the Christ,<n id="1" /> the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!&#8221; Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices<n id="1" /> so that they might go and anoint him.

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He<n id="1" /> gave them to his<n id="2" /> disciples to serve the people, and he divided the two fish among them all.

Then<n id="1" /> he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So<n id="2" /> they served the crowd.

<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.

He said to them, &#8220;Elijah does indeed come first, and restores all things. And why is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but<n id="1" /> they were not able to do so.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will<n id="1" /> also forgive you your sins.&#8221;p>

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;

&#8220;Teacher, Moses wrote for us: &#8216;<i><b>If a manb>&#8217;<b>s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that manb>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>must marryi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>the widow and father childreni>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>for his brotheri>b>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves<n id="1" /> in charge, assigning<n id="2" /> to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> on the first day of the feast of<n id="2" /> Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed,<n id="3" /> Jesus&#8217;<n id="4" /> disciples said to him, &#8220;Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?&#8221;<n id="5" />

And wherever he would go &#8211; into villages, towns, or countryside &#8211; they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if<n id="1" /> they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.p>