Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:

Though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, since they regarded him as a prophet.

They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.” And they were deeply distressed.

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

“But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance!’

Do not call anyone on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is in heaven.

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

they gave Him wine mixed with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink it.