Study Desk

They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely."

Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

"If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.

She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.

They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."

"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them.

"You will all fall away," Jesus told them, "for it is written: "‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

"Abba, Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."

Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Couldn't you keep watch for one hour?

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any.

Again he denied it. After a little while, those standing near said to Peter, "Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean."

The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.

In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.