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But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children."

"Why ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. But to answer your question—if you want to receive eternal life, keep the commandments."

But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he had many possessions.

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible."

But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.

When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day's wage.

Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead."

But Jesus answered by saying to them, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?" "Oh yes," they replied, "we are able!"

Jesus told them, "You will indeed drink from my bitter cup. But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left. My Father has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen."

But Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.

But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant,

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many."

"Be quiet!" the crowd yelled at them. But they only shouted louder, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!"

He said to them, "The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves!"

The leading priests and the teachers of religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the children in the Temple shouting, "Praise God for the Son of David." But the leaders were indignant.

and he noticed a fig tree beside the road. He went over to see if there were any figs, but there were only leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" And immediately the fig tree withered up.

But if we say it was merely human, we'll be mobbed because the people believe John was a prophet."

"But what do you think about this? A man with two sons told the older boy, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.'

The son answered, ‘No, I won't go,' but later he changed his mind and went anyway.

Then the father told the other son, ‘You go,' and he said, ‘Yes, sir, I will.' But he didn't go.