And Jesus left the Temple and was going away, when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to the Temple buildings.

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him by themselves, and said to him, "Tell us when this is to happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age."

Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him.

Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it.

I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his property.

that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know

and will cut him in two, and put him with the hypocrites, to weep and gnash his teeth.

But in the middle of the night there was a shout 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out and meet him!'

But while they were gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

And the man who had received the five thousand dollars came up bringing him five thousand more, and said, 'Sir, you put five thousand dollars in my hands; here I have made five thousand more.'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come, share your master's enjoyment!'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come! share your master's enjoyment.'

So take the thousand dollars away from him, and give it to the man who has the ten thousand,

for the man who has will have more given him, and will be plentifully supplied, and from the man who has nothing even what he has will be taken away.

"When the Son of Man comes in his splendor, with all his angels with him, he will take his seat on his glorious throne,

and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats,

and plotted to arrest Jesus by stealth and put him to death.

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table.

and said, "What will you give me if I hand him over to you?" And they counted him out thirty silver pieces.

And from that time he watched for a good opportunity to hand him over to them.

And he said, "Go into the city, to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Master says, "My time is near. I am going to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples." ' "

They were deeply hurt and began to say to him one after another, "Can it be I, Master?"

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

Judas, who betrayed him, said, "Can it be I, Master?" He said to him, "You are right!"

Jesus said to him, "I tell you, tonight, before a cock crows, you will disown me three times!"

Peter said to him, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you!" All the disciples said so too.

And he took Peter and Zebedee's two sons with him, and he began to show grief and distress of mind.

Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

Now the man who betrayed him gave them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Seize him!"

And he went straight up to Jesus and said, "Good evening, Master!" and kissed him affectionately.

Jesus said to him, "My friend, what are you here for?" Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and secured him.

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs! For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

But this has all taken place in fulfilment of the writings of the prophets." Then all the disciples left him and made their escape.

The men who had seized Jesus took him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had gathered.

And Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's house, and he went inside and sat down among the attendants to see how it came out.

Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

And the high priest got up and said to him, "Have you no answer to make? What about their evidence against you?"

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you, on your oath, by the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God."

Jesus said to him, "It is true. But I tell you you will soon see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming upon the clouds of the sky!"

Then they spat in his face and struck him, and others slapped him,

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a maid came up to him, and said, "You were with Jesus the Galilean, too!"

And he went out into the gateway, and another maid saw him, and said to the men there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene!"

When it was morning, all the high priests and elders of the people held a consultation about Jesus, with a view to putting him to death.

And they bound him and led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

Then Judas who had betrayed him, when he saw that he had been condemned, in his remorse brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders,

Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus said, "Yes."

And while the high priests and elders were making their charges against him, he made no answer.

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear what evidence they are bringing against you?"

And he made him no reply to even a single accusation, so that the governor was greatly surprised.

For he knew that they had handed him over to him out of envy.

Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."

Pilate said to them, "Then what am I to do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"

He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!"

Then he released Barabbas for them, and he had Jesus flogged and handed him over to be crucified.

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the barracks, and got the whole battalion together about him.

And they stripped him and put a red cloak on him,

and made a wreath of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a stick in his hand, and knelt down before him in mockery, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

And they spat at him, and took the stick and struck him on the head.

And when they had finished making sport of him, they took off the cloak, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to be crucified.

As they went out of the city they came upon a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

they offered him a drink of wine mixed with gall, and when he tasted it he would not drink it.

And they crucified him and divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots,

and sat down there to keep watch of him.

They put above his head the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews."

There were two robbers crucified with him at the time, one at his right and one at his left.

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads

And the high priests, too, made sport of him with the scribes and elders, and said,

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

He trusts in God; let God deliver him if he cares for him, for he said he was God's son."

Even the robbers who were crucified with him abused him in the same way.

And one of them ran off at once and got a sponge and soaked it in sour wine and put it on the end of a stick and held it up to him to drink.

But the others said, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to save him."

And the captain and the men with him who were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, were dreadfully frightened and said, "He surely must have been a son of God!"

There were several women there watching from a distance who had followed Jesus from Galilee to wait upon him,

He went to Pilate and asked him for Jesus' body. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

and laid it in a new tomb that belonged to him, that he had cut in the rock, and he rolled a great stone over the doorway of the tomb, and went away.

Give orders, therefore, to have the tomb closely guarded till the third day, so that his disciples cannot come and steal him, and then tell the people that he is risen from the dead, and that delusion be worse than the other was."

The men on guard trembled with fear of him, and became like dead men.

Now go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and is going back to Galilee before you. You will see him there.' Now I have given you my message."

And Jesus himself met them, and said, "Good morning!" And they went up to him and clasped his feet, and bowed to the ground before him.

and said to them, "Tell people that his disciples came in the night and stole him away while you were asleep.

And if news of it reaches the governor, we will satisfy him, and see that you do not get into trouble."

There they saw him and bowed down before him, though some were in doubt about it.

And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.

And just as he was coming up out of the water he saw the heavens torn open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter into him,

The spirit immediately drove him out into the desert.

And he remained in the desert for forty days, and Satan tried to tempt him there; and he was among the wild animals; but the angels waited on him.

They immediately abandoned their nets and followed him.

He immediately called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went off after him.

Jesus reproved him, and said, "Silence! Get out of him!"

The foul spirit convulsed the man and gave a loud cry and went out of him.

And they were all so amazed that they discussed it with one another, and said, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching! He gives orders with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her.

In the evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed by demons,

And Simon and his companions sought him out

and found him, and said to him, "They are all looking for you!"

There came to him a leper appealing to him on his knees, saying to him, "If you only choose, you can cure me."

And he pitied him and stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose! Be cured!"

And the leprosy immediately left him, and he was cured.

And Jesus immediately drove him away with stern injunctions,