For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.

Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.

Then sitting down He called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

But many who are now first will be last, and the last, first."

He had still one left whom he could send, a dearly-loved son: him last of all he sent, saying, "'They will treat my son with respect.'

At last the High Priest stood up, and advancing into the midst of them all, asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is the meaning of all this that these witnesses allege against you?"

At last, having finished their sport, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify Him.