I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!"

So he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

He told him, "See that you do not say anything to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

"Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins," -- he said to the paralytic --

When Jesus heard this he said to them, "Those who are healthy don't need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and at that time they will fast.

how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?"

Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?" But they were silent.

But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.

But no one is able to enter a strong man's house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."

He said to them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven."

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."

For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."

But he looked around to see who had done it.

But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue ruler, "Do not be afraid; just believe."

When he entered he said to them, "Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child's father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

and to put on sandals but not to wear two tunics.

But when Herod heard this, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!"

So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." And they said, "Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?"

for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: "Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid."

because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?"

He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, 'Whatever help you would have received from me is corban' (that is, a gift for God),

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer." (This means all foods are clean.)

After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.

She answered, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

Regaining his sight he said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking."

He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."

But after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are not setting your mind on God's interests, but on man's."

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him."

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able to do so."

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us."

But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.

They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,

But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.

But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

"Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."

But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."

But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded those who brought them.

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

But at this statement, the man looked sad and went away sorrowful, for he was very rich.

The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Jesus looked at them and replied, "This is impossible for mere humans, but not for God; all things are possible for God."

But many who are first will be last, and the last first."

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?"

but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared."

But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

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

Many scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

After noticing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

I tell you the truth, if someone says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

But if we say, 'From people -- '" (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).

But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and the inheritance will be ours!'

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

When they came they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone's favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"

For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had."

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.

For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.

When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

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

"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.

"But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

"But as for that day or hour no one knows it -- neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son -- except the Father.

But some who were present indignantly said to one another, "Why this waste of expensive ointment?

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!

For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."