After some days He entered Capernaum again, and it soon became known that He was at home;

Now there were some of the Scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts.

how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"

But no sooner had the Pharisees left the synagogue than they held a consultation with the Herodians against Jesus, to devise some means of destroying Him.

As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.

Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.

But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold."

They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with 'unclean' (that is to say, unwashed)

If I were to send them home hungry, they would faint on the way, some of them having come a great distance."

He went on to say, "In solemn truth I tell you that some of those who are standing here will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of God already come in power."

They were still on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were full of wonder, and some, though they followed, did so with fear. Then, once more calling to Him the Twelve, He began to tell them what was about to happen to Him.

when some of the bystanders called out, "What are you doing, untying the foal?"

But in the distance He saw a fig-tree in full leaf, and went to see whether perhaps He could find some figs on it. When however He came to it, He found nothing but leaves (for it was not fig time)

Yet a third he sent, and him they killed. And he sent many besides, and them also they ill-treated, beating some and killing others.

Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.

But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted?

Then some came forward as witnesses and falsely declared,

Thereupon some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, while striking Him with their fists and crying, "Prove that you are a prophet." The officers too struck Him with open hands as they took Him in charge.

Some of the bystanders, hearing Him, said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah!"