Herod wants to kill Jesus

Archway in Jerusalem's Old City




Jesus went on his way through the cities and villages, teaching and making his way back to Jerusalem.

Someone said to him:

Are there only a few who are saved?

Jesus said to them:

Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many will seek to enter and will not be able.

Once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, many will stand on the outside and knock, saying:

Lord, open up to us.

The Master will say:

I do not know who you are.

Then they will say:

We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.

The Master will say:

I tell you, I do not know you; go away from me all of you who do evil.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you are kept out.

They will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south, and they will all sit down in the kingdom of God. The last will be first and the first will be last.

During the same hour that Jesus was teaching this, a group of Pharisees came to Jesus saying:

Get out of here, for Herod wants to kill you.

Jesus said to them:

Go and say to that fox:

Look I cast out demons and perform many healings today and tomorrow, and the third day I am perfected.

I must go on doing what I am doing until the time comes for me to suffer martyrdom in Jerusalem.

Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone them that are sent to you! How often I would have gathered your inhabitants together, even as a hen gathers her brood under her wing, but you would not!

Look, your temple is left desolate, I tell you, You will not see me until you say:

Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

Jesus said to the centurion: Go your way, it has been done just as you believed.

Roman ruins in Samaria



After Jesus had finished preaching in parables to the multitude, he went down the mountain and entered Capernaum. The multitudes followed him.

He was greeted by a delegation of Jews who asked him to heal a centurion’s gravely ill servant because he was a man who loved the nation of Israel and had built a synagogue with his own money

Jesus agreed. But as he approached the centurion’s home, the centurion sent out friends to ask Jesus not to trouble himself by coming into his home.


He then approached Jesus and said he did not feel he was worthy for Jesus to enter his home, nor even worthy to meet Jesus himself.

He asked Jesus to just say the word and his servant would be healed. The centurion said he had authority over soldiers who would obey him

When Jesus heard this,he turned to the crowd that followed him and said:
Truly I say to you, I have not found faith this great, not even in Israel.

And I tell you that many will come from the east and the west and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom, the Israelites, shall be cast into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jesus said to the centurion:
Go your way, it has been done just as you believed. And when the centurion returned to his house he found the servant healed and whole.