<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations<n id="1" /> because of my name.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Learn<n id="1" /> this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

and will cut him in two,<n id="1" /> and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.p>

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers,<n id="1" /> and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!<n id="2" />

I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.&#8221;p>

<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" />

But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest&#8217;s courtyard. After<n id="1" /> going in, he sat with the guards<n id="2" /> to see the outcome.

Then the governor&#8217;s soldiers took Jesus into the governor&#8217;s residence<n id="1" /> and gathered the whole cohort<n id="2" /> around him.

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

Just then<n id="1" /> the temple curtain<n id="2" /> was torn in two, from top to bottom. The<n id="3" /> earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Therefore go<n id="1" /> and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After they had gone, an<n id="1" /> angel of the Lord<n id="2" /> appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, &#8220;Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod<n id="3" /> is going to look for the child to kill him.&#8221;

If<n id="1" /> your hand or your foot causes you to sin,<n id="2" /> cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have<n id="3" /> two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

&#8220;<b><i>Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call himi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>Emmanueli>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" /> which means<n id="3" /> &#8220;<i>God with usi>.&#8221;<n id="4" />

After listening to the king they left, and once again<n id="1" /> the star they saw when it rose<n id="2" /> led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down<n id="1" /> and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense,<n id="2" /> and myrrh.<n id="3" />

He stayed there until Herod<n id="1" /> died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: &#8220;<b><i>I called my Son out of Egypti>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

saying, &#8220;Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child&#8217;s life are dead.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now John wore clothing made from camel&#8217;s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.<n id="1" />

<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?