31
Then Jesus took the Twelve off to the side and said, "Listen carefully. We're on our way up to Jerusalem. Everything written in the Prophets about the Son of Man will take place.
32
He will be handed over to the Romans, jeered at, made sport of, and spit on. Then, after giving him the third degree, they will kill him.
34
But they didn't get it, could make neither heads nor tails of what he was talking about.
35
He came to the outskirts of Jericho. A blind man was sitting beside the road asking for handouts.
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