The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect him.'

"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be."

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people?for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and are not partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's."

They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

They did not dare to ask him any more questions.

He said to them, "Why do they say that the Messiah is David's son?

They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill him, for they feared the people.

They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?"

They went, found things as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.

He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."

They said, "Lord, look, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough."

When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.

When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy. Who is the one who struck you?"

They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

As soon as it was day, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am."

They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth."

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king."

But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."

Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

But they all shouted out together, saying, "Away with this man. Release to us Barabbas."?

but they shouted, saying, "Crucify. Crucify him."

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and placed on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

For look, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us.' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'

For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

All the crowds that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

They entered in, and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

They remembered his words,

Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they did not believe them.

They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk?" They stood still, looking sad.

He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

and when they did not find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they did not see him."

They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"

They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you."

But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

While they still did not believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

They gave him a piece of a broiled fish.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

And they asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

And the two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.

And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you will see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim.

He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.

They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, look, he is baptizing, and everyone is coming to him."

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."

So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him."

Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you to pick it up and walk?"