And he went up on the mountain, and called to him those he himself wanted. And they came to him.

So he called them to himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?

And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.

and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.

Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

But Jesus called them to himself and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: 'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand till I put your enemies under your feet."'

Therefore David himself calls him 'Lord'; how is he then his son?" And the common people heard him gladly.

But Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the guards and warmed himself at the fire.

And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus."

But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know this man of whom you speak."

So also the chief priests mocked him among themselves with the scribes, and said, "He saved others; he cannot save himself.

Josnt of Arimathea, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.