The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

Jesus Predicts His Death

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.

Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy

When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him.

Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!

As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him.

“At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’

“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;

All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

They were very sad and began to say to him one after the other, “Surely you don’t mean me, Lord?”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”

He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.

Jesus Before the Sanhedrin

Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the elders had assembled.

But he denied it before them all. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said.

Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed.