As it hath been written in the prophets, 'Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --

and he proclaimed, saying, 'He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;

and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;

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

saying, 'Away! what -- to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'

and they were all amazed, so as to reason among themselves, saying, 'What is this? what new teaching is this? that with authority also the unclean spirits he commandeth, and they obey him!'

And he was preaching in their synagogues, in all Galilee, and is casting out the demons,

And again he entered into Capernaum, after some days, and it was heard that he is in the house,

Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?'

which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

And Jesus said to them, 'Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

and no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if not -- the new wine doth burst the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine into new skins is to be put.'

And it came to pass -- he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields -- and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

and the Pharisees said to him, 'Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'

how he went into the house of God, (at 'Abiathar the chief priest,') and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?'

so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.'

And he saith to them, 'Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?' but they were silent.

And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, 'Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

for he did heal many, so that they threw themselves on him, in order to touch him -- as many as had plagues;

and James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he put on them names -- Boanerges, that is, 'Sons of thunder;'

And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, 'How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.

but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness -- to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;'

And he answered them, saying, 'Who is my mother, or my brethren?'

for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

And he said to them, 'He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

He who is sowing doth sow the word;

and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.

for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.

And he said, 'Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats also were with him.

And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled,

and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, 'Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

and he was questioning him, 'What is thy name?' and he answered, saying, 'Legion is my name, because we are many;'

and all the demons did call upon him, saying, 'Send us to the swine, that into them we may enter;'

And those feeding the swine did flee, and told in the city, and in the fields, and they came forth to see what it is that hath been done;

and he was calling upon him much, saying -- 'My little daughter is at the last extremity -- that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue's house, certain, saying -- 'Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?'

And Jesus immediately, having heard the word that is spoken, saith to the chief of the synagogue, 'Be not afraid, only believe.'

and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying,

and, having taken the hand of the child, he saith to her, 'Talitha cumi;' which is, being interpreted, 'Damsel (I say to thee), arise.'

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' -- and they were being stumbled at him.

And Jesus said to them -- 'A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and among his kindred, and in his own house;'

and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'

Others said -- 'It is Elijah,' and others said -- 'It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'

And Herod having heard, said -- 'He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

for John said to Herod -- 'It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.

And now the hour being advanced, his disciples having come near to him, say, -- 'The place is desolate, and the hour is now advanced,

having run about through all that region round about, they began upon the couches to carry about those ill, where they were hearing that he is,

and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.

and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands -- that is, unwashed -- eating bread, they found fault;

and he answering said to them -- 'Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), is whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine,

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

and he saith to them, 'So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

And he said -- 'That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

for a woman having heard about him, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet, --

And Jesus said to her, 'Suffer first the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the little dogs.'

and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, 'Ephphatha,' that is, 'Be thou opened;'

and he, having looked up, said, 'I behold men, as I see trees, walking.'

Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

and his garments became glittering, white exceedingly, as snow, so as a fuller upon the earth is not able to whiten them.

And Peter answering saith to Jesus, 'Rabbi, it is good to us to be here; and we may make three booths, for thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elijah one:'

And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, 'This is My Son -- the Beloved, hear ye him;'

And as they are coming down from the mount, he charged them that they may declare to no one the things that they saw, except when the Son of Man may rise out of the dead;

and the thing they kept to themselves, questioning together what the rising out of the dead is.

But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'

And he questioned his father, 'How long time is it since this came to him?' and he said, 'From childhood,

and many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou art able to do anything, help us, having compassion on us.'

And Jesus said to him, 'If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,

And he said to them, 'This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'

for he was teaching his disciples, and he said to them, 'The Son of Man is being delivered to the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and having been killed the third day he shall rise,'

and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

And John did answer him, saying, 'Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.'

And Jesus said, 'Forbid him not, for there is no one who shall do a mighty work in my name, and shall be able readily to speak evil of me:

for he who is not against us is for us;

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --

where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.

And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --

where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.

And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire --

where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched;

The salt is good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season it? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them.

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,

and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, 'Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'

And as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, 'Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?'

And Jesus said to him, 'Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One -- God;

And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, 'Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God!

It is easier for a camel through the eye of the needle to enter, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

And they were astonished beyond measure, saying unto themselves, 'And who is able to be saved?'

And Jesus, having looked upon them, saith, 'With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.'