And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.

And he was preaching, and saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts, and the angels were ministering to Him.

As He was going along by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen.

They were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they *spoke to Jesus about her.

And He healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.

Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.

And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them.

Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

And He went out again by the seashore; and all the people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them.

And it *happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him.

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”

And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.

After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.

A crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.”

He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

And He was saying to them, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?

And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

Leaving the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.

And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.

Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;

because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.

And He was asking him, “What is your name?” And he *said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

Now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain.

Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what it was that had happened.

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him.

And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.

and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse—

Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

While He was still speaking, they *came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the Teacher anymore?”

But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, *said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.”

They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He *took along the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and *entered the room where the child was.

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were completely astounded.

And He wondered at their unbelief.And He was going around the villages teaching.

for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him.

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

When it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and said, “This place is desolate and it is already quite late;

Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away.

When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land.

Seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the fourth watch of the night He *came to them, walking on the sea; and He intended to pass by them.

But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;

for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

and ran about that whole country and began to carry here and there on their pallets those who were sick, to the place they heard He was.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders;

He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

They *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *implored Him to lay His hand on him.

And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.

In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples and *said to them,

And He was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”

And they ate and were satisfied; and they picked up seven large baskets full of what was left over of the broken pieces.

And He was giving orders to them, saying, “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

And He was stating the matter plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

And Jesus was saying to them, “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

Six days later, Jesus *took with Him Peter and James and John, and *brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them;

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.”

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later.”

They came to Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He began to question them, “What were you discussing on the way?”

But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.”

Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife.

But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

But at these words he was saddened, and he went away grieving, for he was one who owned much property.

They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking on ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were fearful. And again He took the twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him,

Then they *came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road.

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.

Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.