His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

Again, the Realm of heaven is like a trader in search of fine pearls;

vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

I tell you, after this I will never drink this produce of the vine till the day I drink it new with you in the Realm of my Father."

and after making fun of him they stripped him of the mantle, put on his own clothes, and took him off to be crucified.

So, too, the high priests made fun of him with the scribes and the elders of the people.