When Herodias’s own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.”

Immediately she hurried to the king and said, “I want you to give me John the Baptist’s head on a platter—right now!”

Though the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests he did not want to refuse her.

He got up and departed from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but He could not escape notice.

Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it.

Then they left that place and made their way through Galilee, but He did not want anyone to know it.

Sitting 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.”

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Him and said, “Teacher, we want You to do something for us if we ask You.”

“What do you want Me to do for you?” He asked them.

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

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

Then Jesus answered him, “What do you want Me to do for you?”

“Rabbouni,” the blind man told Him, “I want to see!”

He also said in His teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes, and who want greetings in the marketplaces,

You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have Me.

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, His disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare the Passover so You may eat it?”

So Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?”

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”