<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.p>

Jesus<n id="1" /> answered them, &#8220;I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

<p class="bodytext">Jesus said to them, &#8220;Have you never read in the scriptures:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<i><b>The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstoneb>.i><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyesi>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" />p>

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah,<n id="1" /> whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you!<n id="2" /> How often I have longed<n id="3" /> to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but<n id="4" /> you would have none of it!<n id="5" />

<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?

Then what was spoken by Jeremiah<n id="1" /> the prophet was fulfilled: &#8220;<i>They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israeli>,<n id="2" />

and said to them, &#8220;Go to the village ahead of you.<n id="1" /> As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden.<n id="2" /> Untie it and bring it here.

The Lord replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Who then is the faithful and wise manager,<n id="2" /> whom the master puts in charge of his household servants,<n id="3" /> to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?

It is like a mustard seed<n id="1" /> that a man took and sowed<n id="2" /> in his garden. It<n id="3" /> grew and became a tree,<n id="4" /> and the wild birds<n id="5" /> nested in its branches.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you!<n id="2" /> How often I have longed<n id="3" /> to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but<n id="4" /> you would have none of it!<n id="5" />

telling them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go to the village ahead of you.<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden.<n id="4" /> Untie it and bring it here.

But Jesus<n id="1" /> looked straight at them and said, &#8220;Then what is the meaning of that which is written: &#8216;<b><i>The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstonei>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" />

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth.<n id="1" /> But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Philip found Nathanael<n id="1" /> and told him, &#8220;We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also<n id="2" /> wrote about &#8211; Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.&#8221;

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture<n id="1" /> and the saying<n id="2" /> that Jesus had spoken.p>

Jesus told him, &#8220;Go home;<n id="1" /> your son will live.&#8221; The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.<n id="2" />p>

What did he mean by saying,<n id="1" /> &#8216;You will look for me<n id="2" /> but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come&#8217;?&#8221;p>

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless.<n id="2" /> The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people<n id="3" /> say, &#8216;He is our God.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">Now a large crowd of Judeans<n id="1" /> learned<n id="2" /> that Jesus<n id="3" /> was there, and so they came not only because of him<n id="4" /> but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.