&#8220;Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law.<n id="1" /> They will condemn him to death,

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom<n id="1" /> for many.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people<n id="1" /> who will produce its fruit.

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.

And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup,<n id="1" /> so that the outside may become clean too!p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;So when you see <i>the abomination of desolationi><n id="1" /> &#8211; spoken about by Daniel the prophet &#8211; standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

For then there will be great suffering<n id="1" /> unlike anything that has happened<n id="2" /> from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

The<n id="1" /> foolish ones said to the wise, &#8216;Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.&#8217;

For the one who has will be given more,<n id="1" /> and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When<n id="1" /> the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

&#8220;You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over<n id="1" /> to be crucified.&#8221;<n id="2" />

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.

and declared, &#8220;This man<n id="1" /> said, &#8216;I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.&#8217;&#8221;

<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>