And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them<n id="1" /> short.

They will mock him, spit on him, flog<n id="1" /> him severely, and kill him. Yet<n id="2" /> after three days,<n id="3" /> he will rise again.&#8221;p>

He was in the wilderness forty days,<n id="1" /> enduring temptations from Satan. He<n id="2" /> was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.<n id="3" />p>

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

<p class="bodytext">But<n id="1" /> a suitable day<n id="2" /> came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;But as for that day or hour no one knows it &#8211; neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son<n id="1" /> &#8211; except the Father.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law<n id="1" /> were trying to find a way<n id="2" /> to arrest Jesus<n id="3" /> by stealth and kill him.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer<n id="3" /> many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law,<n id="4" /> and be killed, and after three days rise again.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Six days later<n id="1" /> Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,<n id="2" />

for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, &#8220;The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men.<n id="1" /> They<n id="2" /> will kill him,<n id="3" /> and after three days he will rise.&#8221;<n id="4" />

I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> I will no longer drink of the fruit<n id="2" /> of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.&#8221;