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Jesus looked straight at them and said, "There are some things that people cannot do, but God can do anything."

But many who are now first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

The workers who had been hired first thought they would be given more than the others. But when they were given the same,

They said, "The ones who were hired last worked for only one hour. But you paid them the same that you did us. And we worked in the hot sun all day long!"

and then they will hand him over to foreigners who will make fun of him. They will beat him and nail him to a cross. But on the third day he will rise from death.

Jesus replied, "You certainly will drink from my cup! But it isn't for me to say who will sit at my right side and at my left. That is for my Father to say."

But Jesus called the disciples together and said: You know that foreign rulers like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over everyone they rule.

But don't act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others.

The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people.

The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted even louder, "Lord and Son of David, have pity on us!"

He told them, "The Scriptures say, ‘My house should be called a place of worship.' But you have turned it into a place where robbers hide."

But the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses were angry when they saw his miracles and heard the children shouting praises to the Son of David.

and along the way he saw a fig tree. But when he came to it, he found only leaves and no figs. So he told the tree, "You will never again grow any fruit!" Right then the fig tree dried up.

But Jesus said to them, "If you have faith and don't doubt, I promise that you can do what I did to this tree. And you will be able to do even more. You can tell this mountain to get up and jump into the sea, and it will.

His son told him that he would not do it, but later he changed his mind and went.

The man then told his younger son to go work in the vineyard. The boy said he would, but he didn't go.

When John the Baptist showed you how to do right, you would not believe him. But these evil people did believe. And even when you saw what they did, you still would not change your minds and believe.

But the renters grabbed those servants. They beat up one, killed one, and stoned one of them to death.

He then sent more servants than he did the first time. But the renters treated them in the same way.

But when they saw the man's son, they said, "Someday he will own the vineyard. Let's kill him! Then we can have it all for ourselves."