for this people's heart has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that they might not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

"He said, "No! If you pull out the weeds, you might pull out the wheat with them.

But you say, "Whoever tells his father or his mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me has been given to God,"

Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

But all of this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.