He immediately had his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he was dismissing the crowd.

When he had taken leave of the people he went up the hill to pray.

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their minds were blinded.

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples asked him what he meant by this figure.

In those days when a great crowd had gathered again and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,

They had a few small fish, and he blessed them and told the disciples to pass them also to the people.

Now they had forgotten to bring any bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

As they were going down the mountain, he cautioned them to let no one know what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

When he had gone home, and his disciples were alone with him, they asked him, "Why could not we drive it out?"

But they made no answer, for on the way they had been discussing with one another which of them was the greatest.

But his face fell at Jesus' words, and he went away much cast down, for he had a great deal of property.

Peter started to say to him, "Well, we have left all we had, and have followed you."

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

But they answered them as Jesus had told them to do, and the men let them take it.

On the next day, after they had left Bethany, he felt hungry.

He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"

For they all gave of what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in everything she possessed??ll she had to live on."

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

So the disciples started and went into the city, and found everything just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover supper.

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

Now the man who betrayed him had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Seize him and take him safely away."

At that moment for the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And at that, he wept aloud.

There was in prison a man called Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their outbreak had committed murder.

For he knew that the high priests had handed him over to him out of envy.

When they had finished making sport of him, they took off the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. Then they took him out of the city to crucify him.

who used to accompany him and wait on him when he was in Galilee??esides many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

Then very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, when the sun had just risen.

And they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled back, for it was very large.

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.

When they heard that he was alive and that she had seen him, they would not believe it.

Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.

So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took his seat at God's right hand.

They had no children, for Elizabeth was barren; and they were both advanced in life.

But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. For his part, he kept making signs to them, and remained dumb.

Her neighbors and relatives heard of the great mercy the Lord had shown her, and they came and congratulated her.

When they saw this, they told what had been said to them about this child.

but Mary treasured up all they had said, and pondered over it.

And the shepherds went back glorifying God and praising him for all that they had heard and seen in fulfilment of what they had been told.

When he was eight days old and it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, as the angel had named him, before his birth was first expected.

It had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he should not die without seeing the Lord's Messiah.

There was also a prophetess there named Hannah, the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher. She was very old, for after her girlhood she had been married for seven years,

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

When they had done everything that the Law of the Lord required, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

but Herod the governor, whom he condemned because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the wicked things Herod had done,

When the devil had tried every kind of temptation he left him till another time.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

As the sun went down all who had friends sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and cured them.

and he saw two boats on the shore of the lake, for the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

For he and all the men with him were perfectly amazed at the haul of fish they had made,

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

And he got up at once before them all, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, praising God.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

"But alas for you who are rich, for you have had your comfort!

When he had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he went to Capernaum.

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave was sick and at the point of death.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would know who and what the woman is who is touching him, for she leads a wicked life."

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,

And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture.

And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs.

For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.

And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured.

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,

"Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going, the crowds of people almost crushed him.

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom nobody had been able to cure,

When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.

And her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

Herod the governor heard of all that was happening, and he was perplexed because some people said that John had risen from the dead,

and some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

Then the apostles came back and told Jesus what they had done. And he took them and quietly retired to a town called Bethsaida.

And they all ate and had enough, and the pieces left over that were gathered up filled twelve baskets.

Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep, but waking up they saw his glorious appearance and the two men standing by him.

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, it happened that a great crowd met him.

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the wonders that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes!

She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

Just then some people came up to bring him word of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices.

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

There was a man in front of him who had dropsy.

And he said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for then they will invite you in return and you will be repaid.

And he said, "A man had two sons.

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

After he had spent it all, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because your brother was dead, and has come to life, and was lost and is found!' "

And he said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this man was squandering his property.

And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.

And Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus had his misfortunes in his; and now he is being comforted here, while you are in anguish.

and he said, "There was once in a city a judge who had no fear of God and no respect for men.

And when he had secured the appointment and returned, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he could find out how much they had made.