When<n id="1" /> Jesus learned of this, he said to them, &#8220;Why are you bothering this woman? She<n id="2" /> has done a good service for me.

and said, &#8220;What will you give me to betray him into your hands?&#8221;<n id="1" /> So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared,<n id="1" /> &#8220;He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now<n id="2" /> you have heard the blasphemy!

So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, &#8220;Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus<n id="1" /> Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?&#8221;<n id="2" />

The<n id="1" /> governor asked them, &#8220;Which of the two do you want me to release for you?&#8221; And they said, &#8220;Barabbas!&#8221;

He said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first,<n id="1" /> &#8220;What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes &#8211; from their sons<n id="2" /> or from foreigners?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">But when he saw many Pharisees<n id="1" /> and Sadducees<n id="2" /> coming to his baptism, he said to them, &#8220;You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are the salt<n id="1" /> of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor,<n id="2" /> how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

He said to them, &#8220;Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi,<n id="2" /> he asked his disciples,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Who do people say that the Son of Man is?&#8221;

What do you think? If someone<n id="1" /> owns a hundred<n id="2" /> sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?<n id="3" />

He said to him, &#8220;Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.&#8221;

He said to her, &#8220;What do you want?&#8221; She replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Permit<n id="2" /> these two sons of mine to sit, one at your<n id="3" /> right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.&#8221;

Jesus<n id="1" /> answered, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are asking!<n id="2" /> Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?&#8221;<n id="3" /> They said to him, &#8220;We are able.&#8221;<n id="4" />

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" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now after Jesus<n id="1" /> entered the temple courts,<n id="2" /> the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, &#8220;By what authority<n id="3" /> are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?&#8221;

Where did John&#8217;s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?&#8221;<n id="1" /> They discussed this among themselves, saying, &#8220;If we say, &#8216;From heaven,&#8217; he will say, &#8216;Then why did you not believe him?&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">As<n id="1" /> he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, &#8220;Tell us, when will these things<n id="2" /> happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Who then is the faithful and wise slave,<n id="1" /> whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves<n id="2" /> their food at the proper time?

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus called the<n id="1" /> disciples and said, &#8220;I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don&#8217;t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.&#8221;