and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise or household wares through the temple [grounds, using the temple area irreverently as a shortcut].

and if the Lord had not cut short those days, no flesh should have been saved; but on account of the elect whom he has chosen, he has cut short those days.

And again he sent unto them another servant; and they cut the account short with him, by stoning him, and sent him away shamefully treated.

And he said to them, "You yourselves come privately to an isolated place and rest for a short time." For those [who were] coming and going were many, and they did not even have time to eat.

So He called them to Him, and continued speaking to them in short stories, as follows: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

But they have no root in themselves; they are short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately stumble.

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, "You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean."

And He went on ahead a short distance and fell to the ground and prayed for that hour [i.e., that time of terrible grief] to pass away from Him, if it were at all possible.

They began talking to one another about their being short of bread.

And, noticing this, Jesus said to them: "Why are you talking about your being short of bread? Do not you yet see or understand? Are your minds still so slow or comprehension?

But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.

And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell.

And he got a linen cloth and, taking him down, put the linen cloth round him, and put him in a place for the dead which had been cut out of a rock; and a stone was rolled against the door.

And many [people] spread their cloaks on the road, and others [spread] leafy branches [they] had cut from the fields.

But a certain one of the bystanders, drawing [his] sword, struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.