But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, ¹  and they began to contradict ²  what Paul was saying ³  by reviling him. ⁴ 

when the nations gather together, and the kingdoms pay tribute to the Lord. ¹ 

And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth ¹  in Galilee.”

When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.

So ¹  the crowds were asking ²  him, “What then should we do?”

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness ¹  to see? A reed shaken by the wind? ² 

Then ¹  large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They ²  laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

The crowds that went ahead of him and those following kept shouting, ¹  “Hosanna ²  to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! ³  Hosanna in the highest!”

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? ¹  Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet ²  you did not arrest me.

“People ¹  cry out because of the excess of oppression; ²  they cry out for help because of the power ³  of the mighty. ⁴ 

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

All the crowds were amazed and said, “Could this one be the Son of David?”

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds ¹  regarded him as a prophet.

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

Even by saying ¹  these things, they scarcely persuaded ²  the crowds not to offer sacrifice to them.

Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake – some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. ¹ 

While Jesus ¹  was still speaking to the crowds, ²  his mother and brothers ³  came and ⁴  stood outside, asking ⁵  to speak to him.

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot ¹  from all the towns ²  and arrived there ahead of them. ³ 

So John ¹  said to the crowds ²  that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! ³  Who warned you to flee ⁴  from the coming wrath?

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. ¹  As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed ²  around him.