John the Baptist prepares the way

The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God,

‘a voice of one calling in the wilderness, “Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.”’

If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.’

Peter declares that Jesus is the Messiah

Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, ‘Who do people say I am?’

The way of the cross

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.

Jesus predicts his death a third time

They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him.

They came to him and said, ‘Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the poll-tax to Caesar or not?