and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority to do these things?"

They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

Again, he sent another servant to them; and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

He had one left, a beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the crowd; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and do not defer to anyone; for you are not partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's."

And Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him.

There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take the wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'

The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

But about the dead, that they are raised; have you not read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Seeing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"

The scribe said to him, "Truly, Teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.

David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings."

And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?"

He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?"

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not."

Jesus said to him, "Truly I tell you, that today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."

He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.

Again he came and found them sleeping again, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him.

Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came?and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.

Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely."

When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi." and kissed him.

They laid hands on him, and seized him.

They all left him, and fled.

And a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. And they grabbed him,

Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony did not agree with each other.

Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy." The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus."

And the servant girl saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them."

And immediately the rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."

The chief priests accused him of many things.

Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you."

And the crowd went up and began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

They shouted again, "Crucify him."

Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him."

Pilate, wishing to please the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews."

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is translated, "The place of a skull."

They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it.

Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

It was the third hour, and they crucified him.

The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."

With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha. You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him insulted him.

One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down."

When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he died like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God."

who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and placed him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

He said to them, "Do not be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Look, the place where they put him.

But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

Afterward he was revealed to the Eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zechariah, after the name of the father.

They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.