Again Jesus began to teach beside the sea [of Galilee]. And a very large crowd gathered around Him, so He got into a boat [anchoring it a short distance out] on the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the shore.

But when Herod heard [of it], he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen [from the dead]!”

Have you not even read this Scripture:

‘The stone which the builders regarded as unworthy and rejected,
This [very stone] has become the chief Cornerstone

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken and you are deceiving yourselves!”

Even so, you too, when you see these things happening, know [for certain] that He is near, right at the door.

While He was in Bethany [as a guest] at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster vial of very costly and precious perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head.

Jesus said to him, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you will deny [that you even know] Me three times.”

And again He came back and found them sleeping, because their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know how to answer Him.

So Joseph purchased a [fine] linen cloth [for wrapping the body], and after taking Jesus down [from the cross], he wrapped Him in the linen cloth and placed Him in a tomb which had been cut out of rock. Then he rolled a [large, wheel-shaped] stone against the entrance of the tomb.

Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

Looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, though it was extremely large.