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.

So<n id="1" /> they discussed it with one another, saying, &#8220;If we say, &#8216;From heaven,&#8217; he will say, &#8216;Why did you not believe him?&#8217;

When harvest time came, he sent a slave<n id="1" /> to the tenants so that they would give<n id="2" /> him his portion of the crop.<n id="3" /> However, the tenants beat his slave<n id="4" /> and sent him away empty-handed.

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, &#8216;This is the heir; let&#8217;s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!&#8217;

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in<n id="1" /> that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.<n id="2" />

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised<n id="1" /> in the passage about the bush,<n id="2" /> where he calls the Lord <b><i>the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacobi>b>.<n id="3" />

For I will give you the words<n id="1" /> along with the wisdom<n id="2" /> that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> said to them, &#8220;When I sent you out with no money bag,<n id="3" /> or traveler&#8217;s bag,<n id="4" /> or sandals, you didn&#8217;t lack<n id="5" /> anything, did you?&#8221; They replied,<n id="6" /> &#8220;Nothing.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> went out and made his way,<n id="3" /> as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives,<n id="4" /> and the disciples followed him.

But they persisted<n id="1" /> in saying, &#8220;He incites<n id="2" /> the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

For this is certain:<n id="1" /> The days are coming when they will say, &#8216;Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!&#8217;<n id="2" />

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.<n id="1" />

And all those who knew Jesus<n id="1" /> stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw<n id="2" /> these things.p>

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels,<n id="1" /> who said he was alive.

So<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;You<n id="2" /> foolish people<n id="3" /> &#8211; how slow of heart<n id="4" /> to believe<n id="5" /> all that the prophets have spoken!

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, &#8220;Let us go over to Bethlehem<n id="2" /> and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord<n id="3" /> has made known to us.&#8221;

All<n id="1" /> who heard these things<n id="2" /> kept them in their hearts,<n id="3" /> saying, &#8220;What then will this child be?&#8221;<n id="4" /> For the Lord&#8217;s hand<n id="5" /> was indeed with him.p>

<p class="bodytext">The next morning<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> departed and went to a deserted place. Yet<n id="3" /> the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

and so were James and John, Zebedee&#8217;s sons, who were Simon&#8217;s business partners.<n id="1" /> Then<n id="2" /> Jesus said to Simon, &#8220;Do not be afraid; from now on<n id="3" /> you will be catching people.&#8221;<n id="4" />

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins.<n id="1" /> If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.