But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith?

Then Jesus, seeing a crowd about him, gave orders to cross to the other side.

and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me.

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples and they gave them to the people.

And he immediately made his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side while he dismissed the crowds.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

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

and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

"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.

That same day when it was evening he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side."

So they reached the other side of the sea, and landed in the region of Gerasa.

And he directed them all to sit down in parties on the fresh grass.

He immediately had his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he was dismissing the crowd.

And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

And they forced a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross??ne Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.

And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

But if God so dresses the wild grass, which is alive today, and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more surely will he clothe you, who have so little faith?

For no one who does not take up his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

and he went out carrying the cross by himself to a spot called the Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

Pilate had written a placard and had it put on the cross; it read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

We are witnesses of everything that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they put him upon a cross and killed him.

When they had carried out everything that had been said about him in the Scriptures, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.

As he wanted to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote to the disciples there, urging them to welcome him. On his arrival there he was of great service to those who through God's favor had become believers,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

And I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that is the case, the cross has ceased to be an obstacle, I suppose!

These men who are trying to force you to let yourselves be circumcised want to present a good appearance externally, to save themselves from having to stand persecution for the cross of Jesus the Christ.

But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.

and to kill the feud between them with his cross and in one body reconcile them both to God with it.

When he had assumed human form, he still further humbled himself and carried his obedience so far as to die, and to die upon the cross.

For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ.

and through him to reconcile to God all things on earth or in heaven, making this peace through his blood shed on the cross.

canceled the bond which stood against us, with its requirements, and put it out of our way when he nailed it to the cross.

So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.

Faith enabled them to cross the Red Sea as though it were dry land, although the Egyptians when they tried to follow them across it were drowned.

fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flowers wither, and all their beauty is gone. That is the way rich men will fade and die in the midst of their pursuits.

For "All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And the flower fades,

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

The first blew his trumpet, and there was a storm of hail and fire mixed with blood, and it fell upon the earth, and one third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only the men who did not have the mark of God's seal upon their foreheads.