The Devil said to Him, “I will give You their splendor and all this authority, because it has been given over to me, and I can give it to anyone I want.

And no one, after drinking old wine, wants new, because he says, ‘The old is better.’”

Just as you want others to do for you, do the same for them.

Then He said to them all, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

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

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, “Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!”

“Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

“What do you want Me to do for you?”

“Lord,” he said, “I want to see!”

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us!’

But bring here these enemies of mine, who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter them in my presence.’”

“Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces, the front seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.

“Where do You want us to prepare it?” they asked Him.