TSK · Mark 8:35

“All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court– that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!”

Now there was another man who prophesied as the LORD’s representative against this city and this land just as Jeremiah did. His name was Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim.

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

So I said to him,“My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me,“These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!