The man got up, and immediately took up his mat, and went out before them all; at which they were amazed, and, as they praised God, they said: "We have never seen anything like this!"

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions--

And to them he never used to speak except in parables; but in private to his own disciples he explained everything.

But, when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly collecting, he rebuked the foul spirit: "Deaf and dumb spirit, it is I who command you. Come out from him and never enter him again."

Have you never read this passage of Scripture?--'The very stone which the builders despised has now itself become the corner- stone;

As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him thus--'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

For those days will be a time of distress, the like of which has not occurred from the beginning of God's creation until now-- and never will again.

True, the Son of Man must go, as Scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man 'it would be better never to have been born!'"

I tell you that I shall never again drink of the juice of the grape, until that day when I shall drink it new in the Kingdom of God."

But Peter vehemently protested: "Even if I must die with you, I shall never disown you!" And they all said the same.