And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with great gladness.

The people who were dwelling in darkness Have seen a great light; And on those who were dwelling in the land of the shadows of death Light has dawned.

Great crowds followed him from Galilee, from the ten towns, from Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

"Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

"So whoever breaks one of these least commandments, and teaches others to break them, will be least in the kingdom of heaven. But he who keeps them and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

"You have heard that it was said to the ancients, "Thou shall not commit murder, and "He who commits murder shall be liable to condemnation by the court;

but I say to you that he who becomes angry with his brother shall be liable to condemnation by the court; and he who says to his brother 'Raca,' shall be liable to condemnation by the Sanhedrin, while he who curses his brother shall be liable to the Gehenna of Fire.

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

"nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.

"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."

As he went down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.

When Jesus saw the great crowds about him, he had given directions to cross to the other side,

"Why are you afraid?" he said, "you men of little faith!" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm.

But all the crowd were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such power to men.

Now when Jesus had come into the house of the ruler, and had seen the flute-players and the wailing crowd, he said,

When, however, the crowd had been driven out, he went in and took her hand, and the little girl woke up.

And he said to his disciples. "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few;

While he was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers were standing outside, desiring to speak to him.

and such a great crowd gathered about him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the crowd stood on the beach.

Jesus told all this to the crowd in parables; indeed he never spoke to them except in parables,

"When he finds one of great price, he goes and sells everything he has and buys it.

So when he landed he saw a great multitude, and felt compassion for them, and healed their sick.

Then Jesus answered her. "O woman, great is your faith. It shall be for you even as you desire." And from that hour her daughter was healed.

Great crowds came to him, bringing the crippled, the blind, the maimed, the dumb, and many others. They laid them at his feet and he healed them;

so that the crowd wondered when they saw the dumb speaking, the cripples walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.

But Jesus called his disciples to him and said: "My heart yearns over the crowd, for they have been with me now three days, and they have nothing to eat. I am not willing to send them away hungry, for fear they faint on the road."

"In a lonely place like this," asked the disciple. "where can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

So when he had summoned the crowd, and seated them upon the ground,

he took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, then he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

As they reached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, and fell on his knees before him, saying.

"But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

A great multitude followed him, and he healed them there.

but Jesus called them to him and said: "You know how the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

"Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you wishes to become great, shall be your minister,

Now as they were leaving Jericho a great crowd followed him.

But the crowd checked them, to make them keep still. They cried out all the louder, saying, "Master, have pity on us, Son of David!"

Then Jesus seated himself upon them, and most of the crowd kept spreading their cloaks on the road, and others began cutting branches off the trees, and spreading them in the road.

"If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet."

So they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know that you are honest, and that you are teaching the way of God in sincerity; and are not afraid of any one, for you do not court men's favor.

"Master, which is the great commandment in the law?"

"This is the great and first commandment.

"Whoever is great among you shall be your minister;

for then shall be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never shall be again.

For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

"Then the signs of the Son of man will appear in the sky; and then all the tribes of the earth will lament, when they see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

And he will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from utmost heaven to utmost earth.

Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have been on his guard, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the court of the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,

Barely had he spoken these words when Judas, one of the Twelve, appeared, accompanied by a great crowd of men with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

So when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that on the contrary a riot was threatening, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying. "I am innocent of the blood of this man; you must answer for it."

So Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a great stone against the opening of the tomb, he went away.

"You can have a guard," said Pilate. "Go your way, make it as secure as you can."

So they went and made the sepulcher secure, by sealing the stone in the presence of the guard.

There had been a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, and gone and rolled away the stone, and was sitting upon it.

On this they ran quickly from the sepulcher, in fear and great joy, to tell the news to his disciples.

Now while they were on their way, some of the guard went into the city and told the high priest all that had happened.

In the morning he rose a great while before day and went out to a desert place, and there prayed.

and at once such a crowd gathered that there was no longer room for them, even around the door.

When they could not get him near to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof under which he stood, and after making an opening, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.

Then Jesus went again to the seaside, and the whole crowd kept coming to him, and he taught them.

Then Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and a great crowd of people from Galilee followed.

So he directed his disciples to keep a little boat in readiness for him, because of the crowd, to prevent their crushing him.

Now a crowd was sitting round him and they told him, "See! your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, wanting to see you."

So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them just as he was in the boat; and the other boats were with him.

But a great gale of wind came up, and the waves were dashing into the boat so that it began to fill.

The wind fell, and there ensued a great calm. Then he said to them. "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?"

Now there was on the hillside a great drove of swine feeding.

"Go home to your own people, and tell them what great things God has done for you, and has had mercy upon you."

So he went with him, and a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.

She had heard about Jesus, so she came in the crowd behind and touched his cloak.

Jesus, instantly conscious that the power within him had gone forth, turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

"You see the crowd thronging about you," said his disciples, "and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'"

So he sent at once a soldier of the guard with orders to bring his head.

Then again he called the crowd to him and said:

After he had left the crowd and gone indoors his disciples began asking him about the parable.

From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes??22 fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly??23 all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man."

So Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his finger in the man's ears, and moistened his tongue with saliva;

In those days when a large crowd had again assembled and had nothing to eat, Jesus called together his disciples and said to them.

"My heart aches for the crowd, because they have remained with me three days now, and they have nothing to eat;

So he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground; and when he had taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave to his disciples to distribute to the crowd.

Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

"Elijah does indeed first come," he said, "and restores all things, But how is it written about the Son of Man, that he will endure great suffering, and be rejected?

When they rejoined the disciples they saw a great crowd surrounding them, and some Scribes disputing with them.

As soon as they saw him, all the people were astounded and ran up to greet him.

"Master," answered one of the crowd, "I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit in him;

And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit. "You dumb and deaf spirit," he said, "come out of him, I command you, and never enter him again."

"And if any one shall cause one of these little ones who believe on me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown out into the sea with a great millstone about his neck.

But his face fell at these words, and he went away saddened, for he was one who had great wealth.

"You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority.

Not so shall it be among you. On the contrary whoever would become great among you shall be your servant;

Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.

The chief priests and the Scribes heard this, and they began to seek means of destroying him; for they were afraid of him because all the crowd were greatly struck with his teaching.

And they kept seeking to lay hold on him, but were afraid of the crowd, for they knew well that he had spoken this parable about them; so they left him and went away.

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me.

Be on your guard! I have told you it all beforehand.

Then will they see the Son of man coming in clouds, with great power and glory.

and what I say to you, I say to all. Be awake and on guard."

Peter also had followed Jesus at a distance, until he was inside the court of the high priest. There he was sitting among the officers, warming himself in the light of the fire.