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Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,