So he rose and stood. Then Jesus said to them. "I ask you whether it is lawful on the Sabbath Day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to destroy it?"

So when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to ask him to come and save his slave.

"For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

"You know not what kind of spirit you share, for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." And they went to another village.

"'Your brother is come,' he replied, 'and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has him safe and sound.'

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

"And the next came to him and said, 'Here master is your pound which I was keeping safe in a napkin.

and the people stood looking on. Even the rulers repeatedly taunted him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if this fellow is indeed the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself."

And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us."