DGEMs – Daily Gospel E-Messages

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘You will be seized and persecuted; you will be handed over to the synagogues and to imprisonment, and brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name - and that will be your opportunity to bear witness. Make up your minds not to prepare your defence, because I

When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine stonework and votive offerings, Jesus said, ‘All these things you are staring at now - the time will come when not a single stone will be left on another; everything will be destroyed.’  And they put to him this question, ‘Master,’

As Jesus looked up, he saw rich people putting their offerings into the treasury; and he noticed a poverty-stricken widow putting in two small coins, and he said, ‘I tell you truly, this poor widow has put in more than any of them; for these have all put in money they could spare, but she

The people stayed there before the cross watching Jesus. As for the leaders, they jeered at him with the words, ‘He saved others, let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.’  The soldiers mocked him too, coming up to him, offering him vinegar, and saying, ‘If you are the

Some Sadducees - those who argue that there is no resurrection - approached Jesus and they put this question to him, ‘Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.’ Well then, there were seven brothers. All seven died

Jesus went into the Temple and began driving out those who were busy trading, saying to them, ‘According to scripture, my house shall be a house of prayer but you have turned it into a bandits' den.’  He taught in the Temple every day. The chief priests and the scribes, in company with the leading