But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures." Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

How happy are those who have no doubts about me!"

"Then you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and be put to death. Everyone will hate you because of me.

Many will give up their faith at that time; they will betray one another and hate one another.

Jesus said to them, "All of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, 'God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep will all be scattered.'

But after I am raised to life, I will go to Galilee ahead of you."

"Simon, Simon! Listen! Satan has received permission to test all of you, to separate the good from the bad, as a farmer separates the wheat from the chaff.

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you turn back to me, you must strengthen your brothers."

The time is coming, and is already here, when all of you will be scattered, each of you to your own home, and I will be left all alone. But I am not really alone, because the Father is with me.

The LORD says, "It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness. And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life, and through him my purpose will succeed.

The LORD Almighty says, "Wake up, sword, and attack the shepherd who works for me! Kill him, and the sheep will be scattered. I will attack my people

But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.

but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.

Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,

You are like those streams to me, you see my fate and draw back in fear.

God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;

Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.

My friends and neighbors will not come near me, because of my sores; even my family keeps away from me.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none; for comfort, but I found none.

You have made even my closest friends abandon me, and darkness is my only companion.

"I called to my allies, but they refused to help me. The priests and the leaders died in the city streets, Looking for food to keep themselves alive.

Because the sheep had no shepherd, they were scattered, and wild animals killed and ate them.

So my sheep wandered over the high hills and the mountains. They were scattered over the face of the earth, and no one looked for them or tried to find them.