After John had been thrown into prison Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God.

He went on to say to them. "The secret truth concerning the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside everything is told in parables,

As soon as they hear it, Satan immediately comes and snatches away the Word which has been sown in them.

Not even with a chain could any man bind him, for he had been bound with fetters and chains again and again, and had snapped the chains, and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him.

And those who had been eye-witnesses told them what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine.

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging to go with him; but he said,

Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?"

for he was explaining to his disciples that the Son of man was to be betrayed into the hands of men, and that they would put him to death, but that after he had been put to death, he would rise again after three days,

but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

On the other hand, if we say, 'From men'!" They were afraid, however, of the people, for every one held that John had been really a prophet.

For those will be days of suffering the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now, and never shall be.

Some of those who were present said among themselves indignantly. "Why has the perfume been wasted like this?

That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."

For the Son of man is going his way, as the Scripture says, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for that man if he had never been born."

The Christ! The King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe." They also who had been crucified with Jesus kept reviling him.

But Pilate wondered whether he were already dead. So he summoned the army captain, and inquired if he had been any time dead;

So Joseph bought him a sheet, and took Jesus down, wound him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock, and then rolled a stone against the opening of the tomb;

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

But they, although they heard that he was living and had been seen by her did not believe it.