For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry? (Luke 23:31 ESV) As Christ was being led away to His crucifixion, He turned to the weeping women following Him and offered a sobering proverb. Even in His own suffering, His heart was full of compassion. Rather

And the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you? (Judges 6:14 ESV). The Lord told Gideon to go with the strength he had to rescue Israel from the marauding Midianites. But Gideon replied that he was far

“Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation (Luke 22:46 ESV). Jesus spoke these words to His disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane, just moments before His betrayal and arrest. Though He was in deep agony over what lay before Him, He turned to His disciples and found them

“You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Luke 22:28–30 ESV). In the midst of the Last

“Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money (Luke 22:3-5 ESV). The name Judas has become a byword for betrayal.

“Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near (Luke 21:28 ESV). After some of His disciples expressed admiration for the beauty of the Jerusalem Temple, Jesus told them that a day was coming when not one stone would be left upon another. The

“Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” (Luke 20:38 ESV). The Sadducees, who denied the resurrection and only accepted the five books of Moses, came to Jesus presenting a question that they thought would make the idea of the resurrection seem ridiculous. However, Christs response

But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? (Luke 20:17 ESV). Jesus spoke these words to the religious leaders in Jerusalem, knowing that they were planning to reject Him. He quoted Psalm 118:22 to show that their rejection

“Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’” (Luke 19:30–31 ESV). As Jesus

And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” (Luke 19:5 ESV). Zacchaeus wasn’t a popular person. As a chief tax collector, he was despised by many, seen as a traitor and a sinner. He was small