Mk 15:1 Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
Mk 15:2 “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied.
Mk 15:3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
Mk 15:4 So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.”
Mk 15:5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
Mk 15:6 Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested.
Mk 15:7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.
Mk 15:8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
Mk 15:9 “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate,
Mk 15:10 knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
Mk 15:11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
Mk 15:12 “What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them.
Mk 15:13 “Crucify him!” they shouted.
Mk 15:14 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
Mk 15:15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Mk 15:16 The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.
Mk 15:17 They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
Mk 15:18 And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”
Mk 15:19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
Mk 15:20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

Mk 14:1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him.
Mk 14:2 “But not during the Feast,” they said, “or the people may riot.”
Mk 14:3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
Mk 14:4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume?
Mk 14:5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.
Mk 14:6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
Mk 14:7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want.  But you will not always have me.
Mk 14:8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.
Mk 14:9 I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”
Mk 14:10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, i  went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.
Mk 14:11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

Mk 13:1 As he was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!”
Mk 13:2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
Mk 13:3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately,
Mk 13:4 “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?”
Mk 13:5 Jesus said to them: “Watch out that no one deceives you.
Mk 13:6 Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and will deceive many.
Mk 13:7 When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Mk 13:8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.
Mk 13:9 “You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues.  On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.
Mk 13:10 And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
Mk 13:11 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.
Mk 13:12 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
Mk 13:13 All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Mk 13:14 “When you see ‘the abomination that causes desolation’ standing where it does not belong—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Mk 13:15 Let no one on the roof of his house go down or enter the house to take anything out.
Mk 13:16 Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak.
Mk 13:17 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
Mk 13:18 Pray that this will not take place in winter,
Mk 13:19 because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, l  until now—and never to be equaled again.
Mk 13:20 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.
Mk 13:21 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.
Mk 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect—if that were possible.
Mk 13:23 So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.
Mk 13:24 “But in those days, following that distress, “ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
Mk 13:25 the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
Mk 13:26 “At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
Mk 13:27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.
Mk 13:28 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.
Mk 13:29 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door.
Mk 13:30 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Mk 13:31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Mk 13:32 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Mk 13:33 Be on guard! Be alert!  You do not know when that time will come.
Mk 13:34 It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.
Mk 13:35 “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.
Mk 13:36 If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.
Mk 13:37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’ ”

Mk 12:35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, “How is it that the teachers of the law say that the Christ is the son of David?
Mk 12:36 David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’
Mk 12:37 David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?” The large crowd listened to him with delight.
Mk 12:38 As he taught, Jesus said, “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted in the marketplaces,
Mk 12:39 and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
Mk 12:40 They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.”
Mk 12:41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.
Mk 12:42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.
Mk 12:43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
Mk 12:44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Mark 12:1-34
The Parable of the Vineyard Owner
1 Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
2 At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.
3 But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
4 Again he sent another slave to them, and they hit him on the head and treated him shamefully.
5 Then he sent another, and they killed that one. He also sent many others; they beat some and they killed some.
6 “He still had one to send, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
7 “But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’
8 So they seized him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
9 “Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.
10 Haven’t you read this Scripture:
    The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone.
11 This came from the Lord
and is wonderful in our eyes?”
12 Because they knew He had said this parable against them, they were looking for a way to arrest Him, but they were afraid of the crowd. So they left Him and went away.

God and Caesar
13 Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to Him to trap Him by what He said. 14 When they came, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know You are truthful and defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?
15 Should we pay, or should we not pay?”
But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”
16 So they brought one. “Whose image and inscription is this?” He asked them.
“Caesar’s,” they said.
17 Then Jesus told them, “Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him.

The Sadducees and the Resurrection
18 Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and questioned Him:
19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.
20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring.
21 The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.
22 So the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too.
23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”
24 Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God?
25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.
26 Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?
27 He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”

The Primary Commands
28 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?”
29 “This is the most important,” Jesus answered:
Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
31 “The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.”
32 Then the scribe said to Him, “You are right, Teacher! You have correctly said that He is One, and there is no one else except Him.
33 And to love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
34 When Jesus saw that he answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any longer.

Mk 10:46 Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (that is, the Son of Timaeus), was sitting by the roadside begging.
Mk 10:47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Mk 10:48 Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Mk 10:49 Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.”
Mk 10:50 Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.
Mk 10:51 “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
Mk 10:52 “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
Mk 11:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples,
Mk 11:2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden.  Untie it and bring it here.
Mk 11:3 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’ ”
Mk 11:4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway.  As they untied it,
Mk 11:5 some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?”
Mk 11:6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go.
Mk 11:7 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it.
Mk 11:8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields.
Mk 11:9 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, “Hosanna!’” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
Mk 11:10 “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” “Hosanna in the highest!”
Mk 11:11 Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
Mk 11:12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
Mk 11:13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
Mk 11:14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
Mk 11:15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,
Mk 11:16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
Mk 11:17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’?  But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.”
Mk 11:18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
Mk 11:19 When evening came, they went out of the city.
Mk 11:20 In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
Mk 11:21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”
Mk 11:22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.
Mk 11:23 “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
Mk 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mk 11:25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
Mk 11:27 They arrived again in Jerusalem, and while Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders came to him.
Mk 11:28 “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you authority to do this?”
Mk 11:29 Jesus replied, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
Mk 11:30 John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men? Tell me!”
Mk 11:31 They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’
Mk 11:32 But if we say, ‘From men’ . . . .” (They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet.)
Mk 11:33 So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”