One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

His mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him, on account of the crowd.

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

Sell what belongs to you, and give away the money! Get yourselves purses that will never wear out, inexhaustible riches in heaven, where thieves cannot get near nor moths destroy.

As they were listening to this, Jesus went on to give them an illustration, because he was near Jerusalem and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was immediately going to appear.

When he was near Bethphage and Bethany by the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples