Then He said to them, "How do people say that the Christ is David's Son?

"Tell us, if you are the Christ." But He said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe me,

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. Even the members of the council were scoffing at Him and saying, "He saved others, let Him now save Himself, if He really is the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

Now one of the criminals who were hanging from their crosses kept abusing Him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Then save yourself and us too!"

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,