And his mother and his brothers came. And they stood outside the house and sent word in to him to come outside to them.

and as he was sowing, some of the seed chanced to fall by the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

but when the sun came up, it was scorched, and withered up, because it had no root.

And some fell on good soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

And a heavy squall of wind came on and the waves dashed into the boat, so that it was beginning to fill.

As soon as he got out of the boat, a man possessed by a foul spirit came out of the burial places near by to meet him.

So he gave them permission. And the foul spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned.

And the men who tended them ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around, and the people came to see what had happened.

When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.

And a man named Jairus, the leader of a synagogue, came up and seeing him threw himself at his feet,

had heard about Jesus. And she came up in the crowd behind him and touched his coat,

The woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward frightened and trembling, and threw herself down at his feet and told him the whole truth.

Even as he spoke people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why should you trouble the Master any further?"

They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, and there he found everything in confusion, and people weeping and wailing.

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

When a holiday came and Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to his courtiers and officers and to the leading men of Galilee,

Herodias' own daughter came in and danced for them. And Herod and his guests were delighted, and the king said to the girl,

When his disciples heard of it they came and took his body away and put it in a tomb.

When it grew late his disciples came up to him and said, "This is a lonely place and it is getting late.

When evening came on, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on shore.

They crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret and moored the boat.

As soon as they came ashore, the people recognized Jesus,

but a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit immediately heard about him and came and threw herself at his feet.

The Pharisees came out and began a discussion with him, testing him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

And they came to Bethsaida. And people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.

And a cloud came and overshadowed them, and from the cloud came a voice, "This is my Son, my Beloved. Listen to him,"

When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.

Some Pharisees came up, and in order to test him asked him whether a man should be allowed to divorce his wife.

As he was starting again on his journey, a man came running up to him, and knelt at his feet and asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

And Zebedee's two sons, James and John, came up to him and said, "Master, we want you to do for us whatever we ask."

And they came to Jericho. As he was leaving the town with his disciples and a great crowd, Timaeus' son Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting at the roadside.

And he came into Jerusalem and into the Temple, and looked it all over; then, as it was already late, he went out with the Twelve to Bethany.

So when evening came, he and his disciples used to go out of the city.

Then they went into Jerusalem again. And as Jesus was walking about in the Temple, the high priests, scribes, and elders came up

This came from the Lord And seems marvelous to us'?"

And they came up and said to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth regardless of the consequences, for you are not guided by personal considerations, but teach the way of God with sincerity. Is it right to pay the poll tax to the emperor or not?

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question.

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?"

A poor widow came up and dropped in two little copper coins which make a cent.

Jesus was in Bethany, at the house of Simon the leper, and as he was at table, a woman came in, with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, very expensive; she broke the flask and poured the perfume on his head.

When it was evening he came with the Twelve.

They came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

When he came back he found them asleep again, for they could hardly keep their eyes open; and they did not know what answer to make to him.

When he came back for the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough of this! The time has come. See! the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of wicked men.

Just at that moment, while he was still speaking, Judas, who was one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a crowd of men with swords and clubs, from the high priests, scribes, and elders.

So when he came he went straight up to Jesus and said, "Master!" and kissed him affectionately.

They took Jesus away to the high priest, and all the high priests, elders, and scribes came together.

Then the high priest got up and came forward into the center and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What about their evidence against you?"

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's maids came up,

And a crowd of people came up and started to ask him for the usual favor.

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.

Now the time came for Elizabeth's child to be born, and she gave birth to a son.

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

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

While they were there, the time came for her child to be born,

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from God came to Zechariah's son John in the desert.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Master, what ought we to do?"

and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

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.

And he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee. And he taught them on the Sabbath,

Jesus reproved him and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" And the demon threw the man down in the midst of them, and came out of him, without doing him any harm.

And demons came out of many people, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he reproved them and forbade them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.

And they signaled to their comrades in the other boat to come and help them. And they came, and they filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

Some men came up carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus.

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose twelve of them whom he named apostles:

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.

As he came up to the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out; he was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A crowd of the townspeople was with her.

"For when John the Baptist came, he did not eat any bread or drink any wine, and you said, 'He has a demon!'

and came and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair, and kissed them, and put the perfume on them.

And turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but from the moment I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet.

His mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him, on account of the crowd.

And the word came to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside; they want to see you."

So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril.

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

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 a man named Jairus came up??e was leader of the synagogue??nd he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house,

came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, and the hemorrhage stopped at once.

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.

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

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

When the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to him, "Send the crowd away to the villages and farms around to find food and shelter, for we are in a lonely place here."

But as he said it, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were frightened as they passed under the cloud.

And from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen! Listen to him!"

The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"

And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon him, and when he saw him he pitied him,

As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.

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."

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

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

Just then some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

and when the dinner hour came, he sent around his slave, to say to those who were invited, 'Come! for it is now ready!'

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

But his elder son was in the field. When he came in and approached the house, he heard music and dancing,

But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.