And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”
And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.
For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.
and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.
And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it.
And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.
But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet.
And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”
And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying,
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny.
It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,
And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.”
And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me?
And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him,
And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire.
But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.”
But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.”
And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.
And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him.
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