He said, "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!"

Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.

But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and at that time they will fast.

He said to them, "Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while" (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Be careful! I have told you everything ahead of time.

Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.

He came a third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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."

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.