They were all so amazed that they debated and questioned each other, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits (demons), and they obey Him.”

They were filled with great fear, and said to each other, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

They began discussing this with one another, saying, “It is because we have no bread [that He said this].”

So they [carefully and faithfully] kept the matter to themselves, discussing and questioning [with one another] what it meant to rise from the dead.

But they kept quiet, because on the road they had discussed and debated with one another which one [of them] was the greatest.

where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out.

And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

and if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

They were completely and utterly astonished, and said to Him, “Then who can be saved [from the wrath of God]?”

They began discussing it with each other, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

Jesus began to speak to them [the chief priests, scribes and elders who were questioning Him] in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; and he rented it out to tenant farmers and left the country.

Again he sent them another servant, and they [threw stones and] wounded him in the head, and treated him disgracefully.

And he sent another, and that one they killed; then many others—some they beat and some they killed.

But those tenants said to each other, ‘This man is the heir! Come on, let us kill him [and destroy the evidence], and his inheritance will be ours!’

Then one of the scribes [an expert in Mosaic Law] came up and listened to them arguing [with one another], and noticing that Jesus answered them well, asked Him, “Which commandment is first and most important of all?”

Jesus replied to him, “You see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another which will not be torn down!”

They began to be grieved and deeply distressed and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?”

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple (sanctuary) that was made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes, were ridiculing and mocking Him among themselves and saying, “He saved others [from death]; He cannot save Himself!

And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll back the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”