"You will find out when you go into some back room to hide," Micaiah replied.

Tell them to throw him in prison and to put him on bread and water until I return safely."

"Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!"

But Jesus answered, "When the sun is setting, you say, 'We are going to have fine weather, because the sky is red.'

How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah." So he left them and went away.

Jesus answered them, "I will ask you just one question, and if you give me an answer, I will tell you what right I have to do these things.

But if we say, 'From human beings,' we are afraid of what the people might do, because they are all convinced that John was a prophet."

Then they sent to him some of their disciples and some members of Herod's party. "Teacher," they said, "we know that you tell the truth. You teach the truth about God's will for people, without worrying about what others think, because you pay no attention to anyone's status.

Jesus, however, was aware of their evil plan, and so he said, "You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me?

and he asked them, "Whose face and name are these?"

When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses said that if a man who has no children dies, his brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will be considered the dead man's children.

The same thing happened to the second brother, to the third, and finally to all seven.

Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All of them had married her."

For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry.

'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' He is the God of the living, not of the dead."

Jesus answered him, "Friend, who gave me the right to judge or to divide the property between you two?"

Then Jesus told them this parable: "There was once a rich man who had land which bore good crops.

This is what I will do,' he told himself; 'I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, where I will store the grain and all my other goods.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself ? ' "

"Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able.

Then you will answer, 'We ate and drank with you; you taught in our town!'

How you will cry and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!

Then those who are now last will be first, and those who are now first will be last."

"I have already told you," he answered, "and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you, too, would like to be his disciples?"

We know that God spoke to Moses; as for that fellow, however, we do not even know where he comes from!"

We know that God does not listen to sinners; he does listen to people who respect him and do what he wants them to do.

Unless this man came from God, he would not be able to do a thing."