But a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown."

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

"But as for that day and hour no one knows it -- not even the angels in heaven -- except the Father alone.

But at midnight there was a shout, 'Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.'

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,

and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: "Hail, king of the Jews!"