Quotes About Sacrifice

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.

He went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.

Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.

And at once they left their nets and followed Him.

Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.

Since they were unable to get to Jesus through the crowd, they uncovered the roof above Him, made an opening, and lowered the paralytic on his mat.

But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—

Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”

At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.

So without delay, the king commanded that Johnís head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.

The man brought Johnís head on a platter and presented it to the girl, who gave it to her mother.

When Johnís disciples heard about this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ëWhatever you would have received from me is Corbaní (that is, a gift devoted to God),

he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.

“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.