As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.

They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.

Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.

It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"

When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."

He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."

She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.

He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.

They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.

As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,

Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."

The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.

Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard -- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me -- he who eats with me."

They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?"

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."

Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?

As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,

The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.