So [throughout] the days he was teaching in the temple [courts], and [throughout] the nights he was going out [and] spending the night on the hill that is called [the Mount] of Olives.

Now the day began to be far spent, and the twelve came up [and] said to him, "Send away the crowd so that they can go into the surrounding villages and farms to obtain lodging and find provisions, because we are here in a desolate place.

And [when they] saw [it], they all began to complain, saying, "He has gone in to find lodging with a man who is a sinner!"

And there were shepherds in the same region, living out of doors and keeping watch, guarding over their flock by night.

and herself [as] a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day.

And Simon answered [and] said, "Master, [although we] worked hard through the whole night, we caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets."

Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Even if he should come back in the second or in the third watch of the night and find [them] like this, blessed are they!

I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them?