“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

Suffering and Service

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Him and said, “Teacher, we want You to do something for us if we ask You.”

“What do you want Me to do for you?” He asked them.

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

and asked Him, “By what authority are You doing these things? Who gave You this authority to do these things?”

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; then answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

So they brought one. “Whose image and inscription is this?” He asked them. “Caesar’s,” they said.

The Primary Commands

One of the scribes approached. When he heard them debating and saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked Him, “Which command is the most important of all?”

The Question about the Messiah

So Jesus asked this question as He taught in the temple complex, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

Signs of the End of the Age

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the temple complex, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,

Preparation for Passover

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, His disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare the Passover so You may eat it?”

Then He came and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you sleeping?” He asked Peter. “Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?

So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “You have said it.”

The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went in to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.

Pilate was surprised that He was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether He had already died.