And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.

He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.

saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God,

And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues;

The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.

and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.'

For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."

Jesus answered, "The first one is, 'Hear, Israel! The Lord our God is one lord,

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 the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.

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?"

Some days later he came back to Capernaum, and people heard that he was at home,

If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

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?"

Therefore I tell you, whenever you pray or ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you shall have it.

And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

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

And they did not forget what he said, but discussed with one another what he meant by the rising from the dead.

Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!"

And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,

That same day when it was evening he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side."

But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son; only the Father.

And people brought children to him to have him touch them, but the disciples reproved them for it.

So they reached the other side of the sea, and landed in the region of Gerasa.

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

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

Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

and if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she is an adulteress."

Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?"

But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.

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 will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make your preparations for us there."

And he said to them, "Is it allowable to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them harm? To save life or kill?" But they made no answer.

And at three o'clock Jesus called out loudly, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Six days after this Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him, and led them up on a high mountain, off by themselves. And his appearance underwent a change in their presence,

As they were eating, he took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to them saying, "Take this. It is my body."

Then he explained to them for the first time that the Son of Man must go through much suffering, and be refused by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and rise again three days after.

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

Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,

There were about four thousand of the people. And he dismissed them.

For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,

He left that place and went to the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a certain house, and wanted no one to know of it. And he could not keep it secret,

When Jesus saw it, he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as they.

And whenever you stand up to pray, if you have a grievance against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven too may forgive you your offenses."

And he sat down facing the treasury and watched the people dropping money into it; and many rich people were putting in large sums.

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teachings in this unfaithful and sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes back in his Father's glory, with the holy angels."

Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God!

Early in the morning, long before daylight, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely spot, and prayed there.

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,

The apostles rejoined Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.

They proceeded to Capernaum, and on the very first Sabbath he went to the synagogue and taught.

There came to him a leper appealing to him on his knees, saying to him, "If you only choose, you can cure me."

John the baptizer appeared in the desert, and preached repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins.

And he said to them, "I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the reign of God come in its might."

He immediately called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went off after him.

As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the house of Simon and Andrew.

I have baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the holy Spirit."

they will take snakes in their hands, and if they drink poison it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."

Leaving there he went, followed by his disciples, to his own part of the country.

I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea!' and has no doubt in his mind, but has faith that what he says will happen, shall have it.

They immediately abandoned their nets and followed him.

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

And he said to them, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his former wife,

It was now two days before the festival of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. And the high priests and scribes were casting about for a way to arrest him by stealth and put him to death,

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."

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare your way;

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.

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?

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him as he stood on the shore.

As he was leaving the Temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Master! What wonderful stones and buildings!"

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

And he called the Twelve to him and sent them off two by two, giving them power over the foul spirits.

And just as he was coming up out of the water he saw the heavens torn open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter into him,

But as soon as you see the dreadful desecration standing where he has no right to stand" (the reader must take note of this), "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

On the first day of the festival of Unleavened Bread, on which it was customary to kill the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples said to him, "Where do you wish us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover supper?"

As soon as it was daylight, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes, and they and the whole council bound Jesus and took him away and handed him over to Pilate.

John said to him, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he was not one of our followers."

And he left that place and went into the district of Judea and crossed the Jordan, and crowds of people again gathered about him, and again he taught them as he was accustomed to do.

As he was passing along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets in the sea, for they were fishermen.

He happened to be passing through the wheat fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick the heads of wheat as they made their way through.

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

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

When they reached Jerusalem, he went into the Temple, and began to drive out of it those who were buying or selling things in it, and he upset the money-changers' tables and the pigeon-dealers' seats,

But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin."

And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

He went again to a synagogue, and there was a man there with one hand withered.

Then he began to speak to them in figures. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watch tower, and he leased it to tenants and left the neighborhood.

He went on a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; they too were in their boat putting their nets in order.

and he said, "Abba!" that is, Father, "anything is possible for you! Take this cup away from me! Yet not what I please but what you do!"

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

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

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.

But in those days, when that misery is over, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed its light

There were some women also watching from a distance, among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joses, and Salome,

And whoever causes one of these humble believers to fall might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the sea.

They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument.

King Herod heard of him, for his name was now well known, and people were saying that John the baptizer had risen from the dead, and that that was why he was endowed with these extraordinary powers.

The spirit immediately drove him out into the desert.

And he went up the hillside and summoned to him those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

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

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

And this is the second: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

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.

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

Then he immediately got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

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

Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God, for anything is possible for God."

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

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'

And Jesus called them to him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men tyrannize over them;

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.

And in the course of his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and to be saluted with respect in public places,

And they were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me and for the good news will preserve it.

Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,

And they forced a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross??ne Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

And they left that place and made their way through Galilee, and he did not wish anyone to know it;

Alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies!

Earth and sky will pass away, but my words will not.

He left the neighborhood of Tyre again and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the district of the Ten Towns.

But he said to them, "You must not be amazed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here. See! This is where they laid him.

a man on the roof of his house must not go down or go into the house to get anything out of it,

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

He appointed twelve of them, whom he called apostles, to be with him and to be sent out to preach,

And they reached Capernaum. When he reached home, he asked them, "What was it that you were discussing on the way?"

Pray that it may not be winter when it comes,

Jesus reproved him, and said, "Silence! Get out of him!"

The boy's father immediately cried out, "I have faith! Help my want of faith!"

And he saw in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, and he went up to it to see if he could find any figs on it. When he reached it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

Although it was now evening, yet since it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. And people came and asked him, "Why is it that when John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are keeping the fast, yours are not keeping it?"

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

As they went on their way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walked ahead of them, and they were in dismay, and those who still followed were afraid. And he took the Twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

But Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God himself.

For false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it.

At noon darkness spread over the whole country, and lasted until three in the afternoon.

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,

But Jesus was silent and made no answer. The high priest again questioned him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the son of the Blessed One?"

"How skilful you are," he said to them, "in nullifying what God has commanded in order to observe what has been handed down to you.

But Jesus said, "I am! and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming in the clouds of the sky!"

"You give up what God has commanded and hold fast to what men have handed down.

And they dressed him up in a purple cloak, and made a wreath of thorns and crowned him with it,

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, and reforms everything, and does not the Scripture say of the Son of Man that he will suffer much and be refused?

Should we pay it, or refuse to pay it?" But he saw through their pretense, and said to them, "Why do you put me to such a test? Bring me a denarius to look at."

Then the soldiers took him inside the courtyard, that is, of the governor's residence, and they called the whole battalion together.

they were to go in sandals, and not to wear two shirts.

and screamed out, "What do you want of me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? In God's name, I implore you, do not torture me."

And his fame immediately spread in all directions through the whole neighborhood of Galilee.

And they brought him one. He said to them, "Whose head and title is this?" And they told him, "The emperor's."

Why, I tell you, not only has Elijah come, but people have treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Then the Pharisees left the synagogue and immediately consulted with the Herodians about Jesus, with a view to putting him to death.

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,

you let him off from doing anything more for his father or mother,

When it was evening he came with the Twelve.

The foul spirit convulsed the man and gave a loud cry and went out of him.

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

and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the Temple.

But he said to him, "Master, I have obeyed all these commandments ever since I was a child."

And he went up to her, and grasping her hand, he made her rise. And the fever left her, and she waited on them.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her.

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.

For he was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of this man."

And he spoke to the tree and said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you any more!" And his disciples heard it.

And he sighed deeply and said, "Why do the men of this day ask for a sign? I tell you, no sign will be given them."

and wherever it seizes him it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. I told your disciples to drive it out, and they could not do it."

Some of the seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it yielded no grain.

And when they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell you, one of you is going to betray me??ne who is eating with me."

"Master," they said, "Moses made us a law that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

And he said to them, "Whenever you go to stay at a house, remain in it till you leave that place.

Jesus, at once perceiving by his spirit that they were pondering over this, said to them, "Why do you ponder over this in your minds?

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

But many who are first now will be last then, and the last will be first."

They were discussing with one another their being without bread.

And all the people were amazed when they saw him, and they ran up to him and greeted him.

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

And they brought the boy to him. As soon as the spirit saw him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell down on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

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

And he warned them, saying, "Look out! Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

And the second married her, and died without leaving any child, and so did the third.

But the disciples were amazed at what he said. And Jesus said to them again, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

And he said, "Let him who has ears be sure to listen!"

And he left them and got into the boat again and crossed to the other side.

There were once seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died, leaving no child.

There were some scribes sitting there pondering and saying to themselves,

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

and they began to acclaim him, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

The high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they cast about for a way of destroying him, for they were afraid of him, for all the people were amazed at what he taught.

But Jesus grasped his hand and made him rise, and he stood up.

And he asked them, "What are you discussing with them?"

And they begged him earnestly not to send them out of that country.

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us."

He told his disciples to have a boat always ready for his use, to prevent his being crushed by the crowd.

And they struck him on the head with a stick and spat at him, and they knelt down and did homage to him.

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."

And Simon and his companions sought him out

And none of the seven left any child. Finally, the woman died too.

and the whole town was gathered at the door.

And the leprosy immediately left him, and he was cured.

And Peter remembered about it and said to him, "Look, Master! The fig tree that you cursed is withered up!"

He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring country towns, so that I may preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

When they reached the house the disciples asked him about this again.

And Jesus said, "If you do not understand this figure, then how will you understand my other figures?

And the notice of the charge against him read, "The king of the Jews."

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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 whenever the foul spirits saw him, they fell down before him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"

Which is easier, to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, "Get up and pick up your mat and walk'?

And he warned them repeatedly not to tell who he was.

For he cured so many people that all who had any ailments pressed up to him to touch him.

He said to them, "It is one of the Twelve, who is dipping his bread in the same dish with me.

He answered them and said, "O you unbelieving people, how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

But others said he was Elijah, and still others that he was a prophet of the old prophetic kind.

When you have eyes can you not see, and when you have ears can you not hear? Do you not remember

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

saying to him, "See that you say nothing about this to anybody, but begone! show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure make the offerings for your purification which Moses prescribed."

And when the scribes who were of the Pharisees' party saw that he was eating with irreligious people and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

Jesus asked the boy's father, "How long has he been like this?" And he said,

And he got up, and immediately picked up his mat and went out before them all, so that they were all astonished and acknowledged the power of God, saying, "We never saw anything like this before."

The ones by the path are those into whose hearts the message falls, and as soon as they hear it Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

And he took the wine cup and gave thanks and gave it to them and they all drank from it.

They were perfectly astounded and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"

So he went all through Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out the demons.

and said to him, "What authority have you for doing as you do? And who gave you a right to do as you are doing?"

But Jesus said to them, "It was on account of your perversity that he laid down that law for you.

He is not God of dead men but of living! You are entirely wrong."

Yet can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because all the people thought John was really a prophet.

Jesus said to him, "I tell you, this very night before the cock crows twice you yourself will disown me three times!"

for there will be such misery in those days as there has never been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again.

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And he noticed it and said to them, "Why do you discuss your being without bread? Do you not yet see nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

But Peter said to him, "Even if they all desert you, I will not!"

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.

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.

Herodias felt bitterly toward him and wanted him killed. But she could not bring it about,

and so they are no longer two but one.

Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!"

"I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!"

And they implored him, "Send us among the pigs, let us go into them."

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

And they tried to have him arrested, but they were afraid of the people, for they knew that the illustration was aimed at them. And they left him and went away.

But he answered, "What has Moses commanded you to do?"

What the sower sows is the message.

And they were hurt, and said to him one after another, "Can it be I?"

and such a crowd gathered that after a while there was no room even around the door, and he was telling them his message.

"Let the fig tree teach you the lesson. As soon as its branches grow soft and put forth leaves you know that summer is coming.

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.

and found him, and said to him, "They are all looking for you!"

For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way,

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.

No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat; or if he does, the patch tears away, the new from the old, and makes the hole worse than ever.

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly??23 all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

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At the resurrection, which one's wife will she be? For all seven of them married her."

It is different with those sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message,

He looked up and said, "I can see people, for they look to me like trees, only they are moving about."

And no one pours new wine into old wine-skins; or if he does, the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins too. New wine has to be put into fresh skins."

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! you who would tear down the sanctuary and build one in three days!

For no one hides anything except for the purpose of sometime bringing it to light again, and people keep things secret only to reveal them some day.

So he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and pressed around him.

and then he will send out the angels and gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the world to the other.

And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.

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

And he wondered at their want of faith. Then he went around among the villages teaching.

They said, "Moses permits a man to divorce his wife by drawing up a written divorce-notice."

He said to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

"When I broke the seven loaves in pieces for the four thousand, how many baskets of pieces did you pick up?" They said to him, "Seven."

But you must be on your guard; I have told you all about it beforehand.

He taught them many lessons in figures, and said to them in the course of his teaching,

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

how many baskets of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for those five thousand men?" They said to him, "Twelve."

And Jesus immediately drove him away with stern injunctions,

John said to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."

And he took Peter, James, and John along with him, and he began to feel distress and dread,

And those in front and those behind shouted, "God bless him! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!

Blessed be the reign of our father David which is coming! God bless him from on high!"

and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home.

It is so too with the ones sown on the rocky ground; they gladly accept the message as soon as they hear it,

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?

And the ones sown in good ground are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold.

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

But after I am raised to life again I will go back to Galilee before you."

At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage.

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

and the stars will fall from the sky and the forces in the sky will shake.

But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.

But no one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man; after that he can plunder his house.

How is it that he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the Presentation Loaves, which it is against the law for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions too?"

and said to them, "Go to the village that lies in front of you, and as soon as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing that he was an upright and holy man, and he protected him. And when he heard him talk he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.

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.

Now the woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician birth. And she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

with power to drive out the demons. These were the twelve he appointed:

"I pity these people, for they have been staying with me three days now, and they have nothing left to eat.

"From his childhood, and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to put an end to him. But if there is anything you can do, take pity on us and help us!"

He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he was in need and hungry, he and his men?

and to love him with one's whole heart, one's whole understanding, and one's whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as one's self is far more than all these burnt-offerings and sacrifices."

And those who had seen it told them what had happened to the demoniac, and all about the pigs.

So he called them to him and spoke to them in figures, saying, "How can Satan drive Satan out?

They crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left.

He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward."

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him.

For people who have will have more given them, and from people who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

If anyone has ears let him be sure to listen.

He took him by the hand and led him outside of the village, and spitting in his eyes he laid his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me."

And they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

And he went off and began to tell everybody in the Ten Towns all Jesus had done for him; and they were all astonished.

They said to him, "John the Baptist; others say Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets."

And they began to beg him to leave their district.

He said to them, "Do you not understand yet?"

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

and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"

and his clothes shone whiter than any earthly bleaching could make them.

But the tenants said to one another, 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and the property will belong to us!'

But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and when that day comes, they will fast.

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

But he persisted vehemently, "If I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And they all said the same thing.

I tell you, I will never drink the product of the vine again till the day when I shall drink the new wine in the Kingdom of God."

And if anybody says to you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Master needs it, and will send it back here directly.' "

So they brought the colt to Jesus, and they threw their coats over it and Jesus mounted it.

He said to her, "If you can say that, go home; the demon has left your daughter."

Jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him, and he turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

And she went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Then Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

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.'

Jesus said to them, "Let me ask you one question, and if you answer me, I will tell you what authority I have for doing as I do.

And they ate and satisfied their hunger. And the pieces that they left, that were picked up, filled seven baskets.

And if a household is disunited, that household cannot last.

and then sleeping at night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up, without his knowing it.

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and put the tenants to death and give the vineyard to others.

And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."

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

And again he sent another slave to them. And they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully.

Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to his disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.

The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

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

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

This was because they said, "He is possessed by a foul spirit."

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

And many of the people spread their coats in the road, and others cut straw from the fields and scattered it in his path.

So they took him and killed him, and threw his body outside of the vineyard.

and out of the heavens came a voice: "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

and night and day he was always shrieking among the tombs and on the hills and cutting himself with stones.

And it gave a cry and convulsed him terribly, and went out of him. And the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

And she hurried back at once to the king and asked him for it, saying, "I want you right away to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter."

"Ask me for anything you like and I will give it to you." And he made oath to her, "I will give you whatever you ask me for, up to half my kingdom."

and he immediately sent one of his guard with orders to get John's head.

And he sent another; and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.

This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer secure him even with a chain,

And Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they talked with Jesus.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him,

But as soon as the crop will let him, the man goes in with his sickle, for the harvest time has come.

But she answered, "True, sir! and still the dogs under the table eat what the children leave!"

And if Satan has rebelled against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is coming to his end.

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

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.

And they set off and found a colt tied in the street at the door of a house, and they untied it.

for she said, "If I can only touch his clothes, I shall get well."

When she had left the room she said to her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" But she said, "The head of John the baptizer."

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him, apart from the others,

Some of the bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"

But you must be on your guard; they will hand you over to courts and you will be taken into synagogues and beaten, and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to testify to them.

and had had a great deal of treatment from various doctors and had spent all that she had and had not been benefited at all but had actually grown worse,

"Do people get out the lamp," he said to them, "and then put it under the peck-measure, or under the bed, instead of putting it up where it belongs?

If a kingdom is disunited, that kingdom cannot last.

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

And he sent him home and said to him, "Do not even go into the village."

His disciples replied, "Where can anyone get bread enough, here in this solitude, to satisfy these people's hunger?"

For he did not know what to say, they were so frightened.

Some of the bystanders, when they heard it, said, "See! He is calling for Elijah!"

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

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

Then he laid his hands on his eyes again, and he looked steadily and was cured, and saw everything plainly.

And he warned them not to say this about him to anyone.

And he said to them, "This is my blood which ratifies the agreement, and is to be poured out for many people.

The king was exceedingly sorry, but on account of his oath and his guests he did not like to break his word to her,

His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?' "

When he went back he found them asleep and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Were you not able to watch for one hour?

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

The hemorrhage stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was cured.

"How can we find any comparison," he said, "for the reign of God, or what figure can we use to describe it?

"How many loaves have you?" he asked. "Seven," they said.

Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the Lord's way ready, Make his paths straight,' "

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

He went out of the town again and along the shore, and all the people came to him and he taught them.

And when the captain who stood facing him saw how he expired he said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

Then they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds with great power and glory,

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left here upon another that shall not be torn down."

And suddenly, on looking around, they saw that there was now no one with them but Jesus alone.

And Jesus said to them, "You will all desert me, for the Scriptures say, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

You must look out and be on the alert, for you do not know when it will be time;

I tell you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it at all."

When he was by himself, those who stayed about him with the Twelve asked him about the figures he had used.

And he looked around at them with anger, hurt by their obstinacy, and he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and his hand was cured.

And he went off and beheaded him in the prison and brought back his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to some quiet place, and rest a little while." For people were coming and going in large numbers, and they had no time even for meals.

Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out,

In the evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed by demons,

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

And he taught them, and said, "Does not the Scripture say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a robbers' cave."

And as he was passing along he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.

As Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

When they are taking you off to trial do not worry beforehand about what you ought to say, but say whatever is given you when the time comes, for it is not you that will speak, but the holy Spirit.

And he remained in the desert for forty days, and Satan tried to tempt him there; and he was among the wild animals; but the angels waited on him.

Peter, which was the name he gave to Simon,

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.

for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men, and they will kill him, and three days after he is killed he will rise again."

After singing the hymn they went out of the city and up the Mount of Olives.

but it is not to be so among you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

He went on to say, "It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him.

And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease."

And he sat down and called the Twelve in, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

So when he got out of the boat, he found a great crowd gathered, and his heart was touched at the sight of them, because they were like sheep that have no shepherd; and he proceeded to teach them a great deal.

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And some people came bringing to him a man who was paralyzed, four of them carrying him.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you please you can do for them, but you will not always have me.

He was at table in his house, with many tax-collectors and irreligious people who were at table with him and his disciples, for there were many of them among his followers.

But go and say to his disciples and to Peter, 'He is going before you to Galilee; you will see him there, just as he told you.' "

"Listen: A sower went out to sow,

You will be hated by everyone, because you bear my name. But he who holds out to the end will be saved.

And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.

Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "Yes."

Therefore what God has joined together man must not try to separate."

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

Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has cured you." And he immediately regained his sight and followed Jesus along the road.

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

For nation will rise in arms against nation and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes here and there, there will be famines. This is only the beginning of the sufferings.

The scribe said to him, "Really, Master, you have finely said that he stands alone, and there is none but he,

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

So Jesus retired with his disciples to the seashore, and a great many people from Galilee followed him, and from Judea

And a young man followed him with nothing but a linen cloth about his body; and they seized him,

For before the end the good news must be preached to all the heathen.

John's clothing was made of hair cloth, and the belt around his waist was leather, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

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

And Jesus said, "Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" And they were astonished at him.

but the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich and passions for other things creep in and choke the message out and it yields nothing.

For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.

and so you nullify what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many such practices."

Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, what will you use to season it? You must have salt within you, and live in peace with one another."

And when they went into the tomb they saw a young man in a white robe sitting at the right, and they were utterly amazed.

He could not do any wonder there, except that he put his hands on a few sick people and cured them.

And he pitied him and stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose! Be cured!"

He said to them, "This kind of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

so that " 'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest possibly they should turn and be forgiven.' ",

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

I tell you, men will be forgiven for everything, for all their sins and all the abusive things they say.

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

The high priests too made sport of him to one another with the scribes and said, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

Now at festival time he used to set free for them one prisoner, whom they petitioned for.

and so the Son of Man is master even of the Sabbath."

And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit,

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.

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!"

but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the council, who was himself living in expectation of the reign of God, made bold to go to Pilate and ask for Jesus' body.

"Tell us when this is to happen, and what the sign will be when it is all just going to be carried out."

Nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him. It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him."

But to let you know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralytic he said,

So you must be on the watch, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening or at midnight or toward daybreak or early in the morning??36 for fear he should come unexpectedly and find you asleep.

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

And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and among his relatives and at his home."

"See!" he said, "we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the heathen

Then he awoke and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Silence!" And the wind went down and there was a great calm.

But when you hear of wars and rumors of war, you must not be alarmed. They have to come, but it is not yet the end.

and he said to them, "My heart is almost breaking. You must stay here and keep watch."

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

and drove out many demons, and cured many sick people by anointing them with oil.

"Whoever welcomes one child like this on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but him who has sent me."

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be subjected to trial. One's spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

And again the crowd gathered in such numbers that there was no chance for them even to have their meals.

And Jesus said to them, "Take care that no one misleads you about this.

He forbade them to take anything for the journey except a staff??o bread, no bag, no small change even in their girdles;

"Take care what you hear," he said to them. "The measure you give will be given to you, and even more besides.

"Why does this man talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

David himself, under the influence of the holy Spirit, said, " 'The Lord has said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand Until I put your enemies under your feet." '

She has done all she could; she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.

And the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom.

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

for they said, "It must not be during the festival, or there may be a riot."

I tell you, wherever the good news is preached all over the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

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?"

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him up and said to him, "Master, does it make no difference to you that we are sinking?"