and saying, “The [appointed period of] time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins, live your life in a way that proves repentance; seek God’s purpose for your life] and believe [with a deep, abiding trust] in the good news [regarding salvation].”

And His fame spread at once everywhere in all that part of Galilee.

And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.

And he went into their Synagogues in every part of Galilee, preaching and driving out evil spirits.

But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.

when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men.

And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

how he entered into the house of God, in the section of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?

And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land.

And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.

But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

And as he went on board ship, the man that had been possessed by demons besought him that he might be with him.

To this their reply is a scornful laugh. He, however, puts them all out, takes the child's father and mother and those He has brought with Him, and enters the room where the child lies.

On leaving that place, Jesus, followed by his disciples, went to his own part of the country.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and many who listened to Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things [this knowledge and spiritual insight]? What is this wisdom [this confident understanding of the Scripture] that has been given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:

And the daughter of the said Herodias came in and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat at board also. Then the king said unto the maiden, "Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee."

upon which she instantly fled to the king, and said, I desire to have John the Baptist's head brought hither immediately in a charger.

And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.

And when great part of the day was already gone, his disciples coming to him said, This is a desert place, and much of the day is already gone:

Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them; and when the cakes were broken, he gave them to the disciples to put before the people; and he made division of the two fishes among them all.

Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.

Those who ate the bread were 5,000 adult men.

And immediately he compelled his disciples to go on board ship, and to go on before to the other side to Bethsaida, while he sends the crowd away.

Then He went up to them on board the boat, and the wind lulled; and they were beside themselves with silent amazement.

For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.

and ran about through that whole country, and brought those that were sick on beds where they heard that he was.

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

because that does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, whence it is discharg'd, the purest part of the food being left for nutrition.

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

They brought to Him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.

And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.

He directed the people to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and [repeatedly] gave them to His disciples to set before them, and they served the crowd.

And immediately going on board ship with his disciples, he came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

And he left them, and going again on board ship, went away to the other side.

Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.

And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?

When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Twelve,” they told Him.

“When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Seven,” they said.

Then they came to Bethsaida; and some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged Him to touch him.

And he took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, Seest thou aught?

Then again, put he his hands upon his eyes, and he saw clearly, and was restored, and was seeing distinctly, in broad splendour, all things together.

For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

his raiment was of an exceeding bright whiteness, like that of snow, and such as no fuller upon earth could imitate.

And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;

And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the boy became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.

For he that is not against us is on our part.

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.

At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect his part of the grape crop.

And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.

And Jesus having answered, he said to him, See thou these great buildings? There will be left, no, not a stone upon a stone, that will, no, not be brought down.

But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

"Learn a similitude of the fig tree. When his branches are yet tender, and hath brought forth leaves, ye know that summer is near.

After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

I declare unto you, in whatever quarter of the world this part of the gospel-history shall be related, this action of hers shall be mention'd to her praise.

And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?

And as they sat at board and ate, Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, That one of you shall betray me, which eateth with me."

And He replied, “It is one of the twelve [disciples], one who is dipping bread in the bowl with Me.

And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

And there arose certain and brought false witness against him, saying,

And immediately in the morning, the chief priests taking counsel with the elders, and scribes, and all the Sanhedrim, bound Jesus, and brought and delivered him to Pilate.

And the chief priests brought many charges against him.

And when they had thus abused Him, they took off the purple from Him, and put his own clothes on Him, and brought Him out to crucify Him.

And they brought him to the place Golgotha (which is translated "Place of a Skull").

And they crucify him, and part his garments among them, casting lots upon them, what each should take.

And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome brought spices in order to go and anoint him.

{The remaining twelve verses, according to Tischendorf and others, made originally no part of Marks Gospel. As the passage was added very early, however, since it is referred to by Irenaeus in the latter part of the second century, it is here given, as an appendix.} [And having risen early, on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

She went and brought word to those that had been with him, who were grieving and weeping.

and they went and brought word to the rest; neither did they believe them.