<p class="bodytext">Then Jesus said to his disciples, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

<t /><p class="bodytext">As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> he took the twelve<n id="2" /> aside privately and said to them on the way,

But Jesus called them and said, &#8220;You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

Two<n id="1" /> blind men were sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Have mercy<n id="3" /> on us, Lord, Son of David!&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when they approached Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and came to Bethphage,<n id="3" /> at the Mount of Olives,<n id="4" /> Jesus sent two disciples,

So<n id="1" /> they answered Jesus,<n id="2" /> &#8220;We don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then he said to them, &#8220;Neither will I tell you<n id="4" /> by what authority<n id="5" /> I am doing these things.p>

Jesus<n id="1" /> answered them, &#8220;You are deceived,<n id="2" /> because you don&#8217;t know the scriptures or the power of God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.<n id="2" />

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.

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

Jesus said to him, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> on this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, &#8220;Sit here while I go over there and pray.&#8221;

Then Jesus said to him, &#8220;Put your sword back in its place!<n id="1" /> For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house<n id="1" /> the experts in the law<n id="2" /> and the elders had gathered.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A<n id="1" /> slave girl<n id="2" /> came to him and said, &#8220;You also were with Jesus the Galilean.&#8221;

When<n id="1" /> he went out to the gateway, another slave girl<n id="2" /> saw him and said to the people there, &#8220;This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.&#8221;

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: &#8220;Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.&#8221; And he went outside and wept bitterly.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

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" />

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.