As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.
He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.
"I tell you the truth" he said. "this poor wodow has pu in more than all the others.
All these people gave gifts out of their wealth: but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on."
Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God, But Jesus said,
"As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another,e very one of them will be thrown down,"
"Teacher," they asked, "when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?"
He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming,'I am he,' and,"The time is near.' Do not follow them.
When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."
Then he said to them: "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
"But before all this, they will delver you to synagogues and preisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.
This will result in your being withnesses to them
But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves.
For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.
All men will hate you because of me.
But not a hair of your head will perish.
By standing flirm you will gain life
"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city
For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written,
How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be grat distress in the land and wrath against this peopel
They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
"There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On thee arth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea
Men will faint from teror,apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a dloud with power and preat glory
When these things begin to take place ,s tand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
He told them this parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.
When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near
Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
"I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
"Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.
For it will come upon all those who live on the face of teh whole earth.
Be always on the watch and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able tos tand before the Son of Man."
Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives,
and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.
Luke 22
Now the Feast of Unleavend Bread, called the Passover, was approaching
and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.
Then Satan entered Judas, called Isacriot, one of the Twelve
And Judas went to tje chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus
The were delighted and agreed to give him money
He consented and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over them when no crowd was present.
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
Jesus sent Peter and John, saying,"Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover."
"Where do you want us to prepare for it?" they asked.
He replied,"As you enter the city, aman carrying a jar of waer will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters
and say to the owner of the house,"The Teacher asks; Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"
He will show you a large upper room, all furnished Make preparations there."
They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
When the hour came. Jesus and his appostles reclined at teh table
And he said to them,"I have eagerly desired toe at this Passover with you before I suffer.
For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God."
After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among you.
For tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."
And he took bread , gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them,s aying,"This is my body given for you: do this in remembrance of me."
In the same way after the supper he took the cup, saying,"This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
But the hand of him who is goinf to betray me is will mine on the table
The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed , but woe to that man who betrays him."
They began to question among temselves which of them it might be who would do this.
Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considred to be greatest.
Jesus said to them,"The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them: and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors.
But you are not to be like that, Instead, the greatest among you should be like the one who serves.
For who is greater, the one who is at the table pr the one who serves? Is it not the one who os at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
You are those who have stood by me in my treials
And I confer on your a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,
so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones . judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
"Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat,
But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faithbmay not fail. And when you have tirneen your brothers."
But he replied,"Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death,"
Jesus answered,"I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me."
Then Jesus asked them,"When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they answered.
He said to them,"But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword , sell your cloak and buy one.
It is written: 'And he was numbered with the transgressors'; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me: Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment."
The disciples said,"See, Lord here are two swords." "Thart is enough," he replied.
Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him.
On reaching the place, he said to them."Pray that you will not fall into temptation."
He withdrew about a stone's throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed.
"Father, if you are willing take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."
An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him
And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground
When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
"Why are you sleeping?" he asked them."Ger up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation."
While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Tewlve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him
but Jesus asked him,"Judas, are you netraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"
When Jesus' followers saw what going to happen, they said,"Lord ,s hould we strike with out swords?"
And onne if them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
But Jesus answered,"No more of this!" And he touched the man's ear and healed him.
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him,"Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?
Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me, But this is your hour- when darkness reigns."
Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest, Peter followid at distance
But when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the sourtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat dawun with them
A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight, She looked closely at him and said,"This man was with him,"
But he denied it. "Woman, I don't know him," he said.
A little later someone slse saw him and said, "You also are one of them.""Man, I am not!" Peter replied.
About an hour later another assenrted,"Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean."
Peter replied,"Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" Just as he was speaking. the rooster crowed.
The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times."
And he went outside and wept bitterly.
The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him.
They blindfolded him and demanded,"Prophesy! Who hit you?"
And they said many other insulting things to him.
At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led begore them.
"If you are the Christ," they said, "tell us." Jesus answered,"If I tell you, you will not be lieve me,
and if I asked you, you would not answer.
But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God."
They all asked,"Are you then the Son of God?" He replied,"You are right in saying I am."
Then they said,"Why do we need any more testimoeny? We have heard it from his own lips."
Luke 23
Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate.
And they began to accuse him, saying,"We have found this man subverting our natiom. He opposes paymeat of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Christ a king."
So Pilate asked Jesus,"Are you the king of the Jews?" "Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
Then Pilae announced to the chief priests and teh crowd,"I find no basic for a charge against this man.'"
But they insisted,"He stirs up the people over Judea by his teaching . He started in charge and has come all the way here."
On hearing this . Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean.
When he learned that Jesus was under Herod's jurisdiction , he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time
When Herod saw Jesus, he was reatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him, From what he had heard about him, he hopped to see him perform some miracle
He plied him with many questions but Jesus gave him no answer
The chief priests and teh techers of the law were standing there, vehemently accusing him.
Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, theysent him back to Pitate.
That day Herod and Pilate because friends- before this they had been enemies.
Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and teh people
and said to them,"You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your ccharges against him.
Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us: as you can see, he had done nothing to deserve death.
Therefore, I will punish him and then relase him."
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With one voice they cried out, "Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!"
(Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)
Wanting to rfelease Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again
But they lept shouting,"Crucify him! Crucify him!"
For the third time he spoke to them: "Why ? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him."
But woth loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified , and their shouts prevcailed.
So Pilate decided to grant their demand
He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will
As they led him away, the seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country , and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus
A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.
Jesus turned and said to them,"Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for your selves and for your children
For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'
Then "'they will say to mountains,"Fall on us!" and to the hills,"Cover us!"'
For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed
When they came to the place called the Skul, there they crucified him, along with the criminals- one on his right, the other on his left
Jesus said "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing," And they divide up his clothes by casting lots.
The people stood watching , and the rulers even sneered at him. They said,"He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."
The soldoers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar.
and said, "If you are the king of the Jews,save yourself."
There was a written notice above him, which read; THIS IS THEN KING, OF THE JEWS.
One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him:"Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said,"since you are under the same sentence?
We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve, But this man has done nothing wrong."
Then he said, "Jesus , remember me when you come into your kingdom."
Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour
for the sun stopped shining. And teh curtain of the temple was torn in two
Jesus called oput with a loud voice,"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.
Then centurion,s eething what had happened praised God and said,"Surely this was a righteous man."
When all the people who has gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away
But all those who knew him. including the women who had followed him from, Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things
Now there was a man named Joseph, a menber of the Council, a good and upright man
who had not consented to thier decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea and he was waiting for the kingdom of God
Going to Pilate , he asked for Jesus' body.
Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid.
It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begim
The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.
Luke 24
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
They found the stome rolled away from the tomb,
but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus
While they were wondering about this, suiddenly two men in clothes that leamed like lightning stood beside them
In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them,"Why do you look for the living among the dead?
He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
"The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'"
Then they remembered his words,
When they came back from the tombs, all the others
It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles,
But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.
Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb, Bebding over, eh saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
As they talked and discussed these things withe ach other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;
but they were kept from recognizing him.
He asked them, "What are you discussing together as you walk along?"They stood still their faces downcast
One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?"
"What things?" he asked,"Sb'Stayout Jesus of Nazareth," they replied,"He was a prophet, pwerful in word and deed before God and all the people
The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced tod eath, and they crucified him;
but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to reddem Israel. And waht is more, it is the third day since all this took place
In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning
but didn't find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive
Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said , but him they did not see,"
He said to them,"How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?'
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
As they approached the village to shich they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther.
But they urged him strongly,"Stay with us, for it is nearly evening the day is almost over," So he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.
They asked each other,"Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"
They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together
and saying "It is trye! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon."
Then the two told what had happened oin the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.
While they were still talking about this, Jeus himself stood among them and said to them,"[Peace be with you."
They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw ghost.
He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet.
And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them,"Do you have anything here toe at?"
They gave him a piece of broiled fish
and he took it and ate it in their presence.
He said to them,"This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures
He told them, "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem;
You are withnesses of these things.
I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."
When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them
While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven
Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
And theys tayed continually at the temple, praising God.
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