Peter began to say to him: ‘Look, we have left everything and followed you.
Jesus said: ‘Truly I say to you, there is no-one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother or father or children or fields because of me and because of the gospel who will not receive, now in this time, a hundred times house and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields with persecution, and in the coming age ‘eternal life.
‘But there will be many that are first last and last first. ‘
They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going ahead of them, and astonished, the followers were fearful, and taking aside the twelve again, he began to tell them the things about to happen to him: ‘Look, I am going up into Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the High Priests and the scholars, and they will condemn him to death and they will hand him over to the pagans, and they will mock him, and spit on him and scourge him and they will kill him. And after three days he will rise. ‘
Eternal Light, shine into our hearts;
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil;
Eternal Power, be our support;
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance:
That we may seek your face
with all our heart and mind and soul and strength. Amen.
Alcuin