For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.'

Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Then they asked him, "Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"

He said to them, "Elijah does indeed come first, and restores all things. And why is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?

He answered them, "You unbelieving generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him to me."

After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, someone ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all.

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.

"You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

First the gospel must be preached to all nations.

"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all of them said the same thing.

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, "You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean."