When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him.

So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn't do it

because he was teaching his disciples, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. They will kill him, but after being dead for three days he will be raised."

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

and they'll make fun of him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him. But after three days he'll be raised."

So Jesus stopped and said, "Call him!"

When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him, because they were afraid of him, since the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

But those farmers told one another, "This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

So Pilate asked them again, "Then what should I do with the man you call "the King of the Jews'?"