But all this is happening that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

And blessed is he who does not stumble because of Me.

Then they will deliver you up to affliction and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

And Jesus said to them, All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.

But after I have been raised, I will go before you into Galilee.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon. Behold, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith does not fail; and when you have returned, strengthen your brethren.

Behold, the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you are scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Yet it pleased Jehovah to crush Him; to grieve Him; that He should give His soul as a sin-offering. He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand.

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully. Like a brook, like the streams of the brooks, they pass away;

When it is warm, they stop flowing; when it is hot, they dry up from their place.

The wanderers of Tema have paid attention; the travelers of Sheba have looked for them.

Surely now you are nothing; you see terror and are afraid.

He has removed my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

My lovers and my friends stand at a distance from my plague; and my relatives stand afar off.

Reproach has broken My heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for someone to show pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found none.

Lover and friend You have removed far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and my elders died in the city while they sought food for them to restore their life.

So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill; yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.