As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:

Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You,
who will prepare Your way.

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

He was preaching: “Someone more powerful than I will come after me. I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of His sandals.

I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

He was in the wilderness 40 days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels began to serve Him.

“Follow Me,” Jesus told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”

But the time will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

“On the other hand, no one can enter a strong man’s house and rob his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he will rob his house.

I assure you: People will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies they may blaspheme.

Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

Then He said to them: “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables?

Then He said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear. By the measure you use, it will be measured and added to you.

For to the one who has, it will be given, and from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”

So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”

But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!”

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

For whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

Then He said to them, “I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.”

He replied to them, “You unbelieving generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to Me.”

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

“Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name who can soon afterward speak evil of Me.

And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of My name, since you belong to the Messiah—I assure you: He will never lose his reward.

For everyone will be salted with fire.

For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],

and the two will become one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

Then, looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.

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

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death. Then they will hand Him over to the Gentiles,

and they will mock Him, spit on Him, flog Him, and kill Him, and He will rise after three days.”

“We are able,” they told Him.

Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.

and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here right away.’”

Then He began to teach them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!”

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing.

[But if you don’t forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your wrongdoing.]”

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; then answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

They began to argue among themselves: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.”

And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

“He still had one to send, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

“But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

“Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.

In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down!”

“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign when all these things are about to take place?”

Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and they will deceive many.

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

“But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to sanhedrins, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of Me, as a witness to them.

So when they arrest you and hand you over, don’t worry beforehand what you will say. On the contrary, whatever is given to you in that hour—say it. For it isn’t you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of the world, which God created, until now and never will be again!

For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect.

“But in those days, after that tribulation:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;

the stars will be falling from the sky,
and the celestial powers will be shaken.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

He will send out the angels and gather His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.

I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

I assure you: Wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her.”

So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him.

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.”

While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me—one who is eating with Me!”

For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

I assure you: I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way in the kingdom of God.”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will run away, because it is written:

I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered.

But after I have been resurrected, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”

Peter told Him, “Even if everyone runs away, I will certainly not!”

“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “today, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times!”

But he kept insisting, “If I have to die with You, I will never deny You!” And they all said the same thing.

And He said, “Abba, Father! All things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”

“We heard Him say, ‘I will demolish this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another not made by hands.’”

“I am,” said Jesus, “and all of you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” When he thought about it, he began to weep.

They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance to the tomb for us?”

But go, tell His disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see Him there just as He told you.’”

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;

they will pick up snakes; if they should drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”