I have baptized you in water, but He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

And He stayed in the desert forty days, while He was being tempted by Satan; yea, He was with the wild beasts, but the angels continued to wait upon Him.

But Jesus at once drove him out of their presence, and gave him this stringent charge:

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

"Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said,

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. So some people came and asked Him, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples practice fasting, but yours never do?"

But a time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

But He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up in the crowd."

Then He asked them, "Is it right to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" But they had nothing to say.

But He charged them time after time not to tell who He was.

And if Satan has made an insurrection against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is surely coming to an end.

But no one can get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant; after that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

But whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of a sin that has no end."

but when the sun came up, they were scorched and withered away, because they had not taken root.

Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that

The ones along the path are those who have the message sown in their hearts, but as soon as it is sown there, Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.

For whoever has will have more given to him, but whoever has nothing, even what he has will be taken away."

But as soon as the crop Will permit it, he puts in the sickle, for the reaping time has come."

but when it is properly sown, it comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under its shade."

He did not tell them anything except by stories, but to His own disciples He kept on privately explaining everything.

But a furious squall of wind came up, and the waves were dashing over into the boat, so that it was fast filling.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him.

However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."

and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse,

But the disciples kept saying to Him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

But Jesus paid no attention to what was said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only keep up your faith."

He let no one go with Him but Peter, James, and James's brother John.

And He went into the house and said to them, "Why do you continue all this confusion and crying? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping."

Then they began to laugh in His face. But He drove them all out, and took the little girl's father and mother and the men with Him, and went into the room where the little girl was.

But He strictly charged them to let nobody know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never fails to be honored except in his native neighborhood, among his kinsmen, and in his own home."

But others were saying that He was Elijah, and still others that He was a prophet like the prophets of old.

But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,

But many people saw them start and knew of it and ran around the lake from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

But He answered them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." Then they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost and screamed aloud,

for they all saw Him and were terrified. But He at once spoke to them and said, "Keep up courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

But He answered them, "Isaiah beautifully prophesied about you hypocrites; as the Scripture says: "'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;

Their worship of me is but an empty show; the things they teach are but men's precepts.'

but you say if a man tells his father or mother, 'Everything I have that may be of use to you is Corban,' that is, consecrated to God,

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

because it does not reach his heart but only his stomach, and then passes off into the waste?" In thus speaking He made all foods clean.

Then He left there and went into the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wanted no one to know that He was there. But He could not escape public notice.

But He was saying to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it out to the house dogs."

But she answered Him, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs under the table usually eat the crumbs the children drop."

Then He charged them not to tell anybody about it, but the more He kept charging them, the more they kept spreading the news.

But His disciples answered Him, "Where can anyone get bread enough here in this destitute place, to give these people plenty?"

But He sighed in spirit and said, "Why do the people of these times ask for a spectacular sign? I solemnly say, no sign at all will be given them."

He looked up and answered, "I see the people, but they look to me like trees moving around."

But He strictly warned them not to tell this about Him to anybody.

Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.

But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!"

And as quick as a flash, on looking around, they saw no one with them but Jesus by Himself.

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and people treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

Wherever it seizes him, it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. So I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they could not do it."

and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!"

But Jesus grasped his hand and raised him, and he got up.

for He was now teaching His disciples, and saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be turned over into men's hands, and they will kill Him, but three days after that He will rise again."

But they did not understand what this statement meant, and they were afraid to ask Him.

But they had nothing to say, for they had discussed with one another which of them was to be the greatest.

"Whoever, as a disciple of mine, welcomes one little child like this, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not merely me but Him who sent me."

Everyone must be seasoned with fire. Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, how can you season it again?

But Jesus said to them, "It was due to your moral perversity that Moses wrote that command in your law.

But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.

and he and his wife must become one,' so they are no longer two but one.

And people were bringing little children to Him for Him to touch them, but the disciples reproved them for it.

And Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me perfectly good? No one is perfectly good but God Himself.

But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

But his countenance fell at that command, and he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

His disciples were startled at this statement. But Jesus again said to them as He continued the topic, "My children, how hard it is to get into the kingdom of God!

But Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but everything is possible for God."

who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.

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

As they were walking along the road up to Jerusalem, Jesus was going on ahead of them, but they were dazed while those who were still following were afraid. Then again He took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to befall Him.

and they will make sport of Him, and spit on Him, and flog Him, and kill Him, but three days after He will rise again."

but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared."

but this is not to be the case among you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

Many of the people began to rebuke him and to tell him to keep quiet, but all the louder he kept shouting, "You son of David, do pity me!"

but some bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"

Now in the distance He saw a fig tree covered with leaves, and He went up to it to see if He might find some figs on it, but when He got to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

And He continued teaching them and saying, "Does not the Scripture say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a cave for robbers."

I solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt at all in his heart, but has faith that what he says will take place, shall have it.

But they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

But those tenants said among themselves, 'This is his heir; come on, let us kill him, and all that is coming to him will be ours.'

Then they were trying to have Him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that He aimed this story at them. And so they left Him and went away.

And they came up and said to Him, "We know that you always tell the truth, and pay no personal consideration to anyone, but teach the way of God honestly. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

"Teacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man's brother died leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

For when people rise from the dead, men do not marry and women are not married, but continue to live together as the angels in heaven do.

But as to the rising of the dead, did you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

He is not the God of dead but of living people! You are entirely wrong in your views."

Then the scribe said to Him, "Indeed, Teacher, you have properly said that He is one by Himself, and there is no other but Him,

For all of them put in out of their surplus, but she in her want put in all she had, yes, all she had to live on."