Quotes About Sacrifice

who will mock Him and spit on Him and flog Him and kill Him. And after three days He will rise again.”

They answered, “Grant that one of us may sit at Your right hand and the other at Your left in Your glory.”

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

“We can,” the brothers answered. “You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”

But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

If anyone asks, ëWhy are you doing this?í tell him, ëThe Lord needs it and will return it shortly.í”

So they went and found the colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. They untied it,

Many in the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut from the fields.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

He sent still another, and this one they killed. He sent many others; some they beat and others they killed.

Finally, having one beloved son, he sent him to them. ëThey will respect my son,í he said.

So they seized the son, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

Then the second one married the widow, but he also died and left no children. And the third did likewise.

In this way, none of the seven left any children. And last of all, the woman died.

and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.

Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.

Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.