Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son,
“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.
And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius.
The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,
saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.
And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,
Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’
a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.
For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.”
But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you,
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.”
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.
Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.”
At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.
And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end.
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”
After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.”
Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.
So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.
Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,
But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.
And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”
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