Then he told them, "As you go into the entire world, proclaim the gospel to everyone.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever doesn't believe will be condemned.

He said, "The time is now! The kingdom of God is near! Repent, and keep believing the gospel!"

Now after John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and proclaimed the gospel about the kingdom of God.

These are the signs that will accompany those who believe: In my name they'll drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages,

This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.

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

because even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."

Jesus answered, "The most important is, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus.

Then one of the scribes came near and heard the Sadducees arguing with one another. He saw how well Jesus answered them, so he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of them all?"

Several days later, Jesus returned to Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home.

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

As Jesus was setting out again, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

That is why I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples and told them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously,

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

They kept the matter to themselves but argued about what "rising from the dead" meant.

Jesus told him, ""If you are able?' Everything is possible for the person who believes!"

Then he told them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

That day, when evening had come, he told them, "Let's cross to the other side."

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

Some people were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.

What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

This is the builder, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn't it? His sisters are here with us, aren't they?" And they were offended by him.

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

Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus, his disciples, and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus (that is, the son of Timaeus) was sitting by the road.

Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished and ready. Get everything ready for us there."

Then he asked them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on Sabbath days, to save a life or to destroy it?" But they remained silent.

At three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?")

Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain to be alone with him. His appearance was changed in front of them,

While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to them, saying, "Take some. This is my body."

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but after three days he would rise again.

So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Others fell on stony ground, where they didn't have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once, because the soil wasn't deep.

Now about 4,000 men were there. Then he sent them on their way.

Then he told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power."

because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

When Jesus saw this, he became furious and told them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

"Whenever you stand up to pray, forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.

As Jesus sat facing the offering box, he watched how the crowd was dropping their money into it. Many rich people were dropping in large amounts.

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father's glory."

Jesus told his disciples, "Have faith in God!

In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went to a deserted place and prayed there.

When they came near Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead

The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbaths, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

Then a leper came to Jesus and began pleading with him. He fell on his knees and told him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

John was baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism about repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

He immediately called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

After they left the synagogue, they went directly to the house of Simon and Andrew, along with James and John.

I baptized you with water, but it is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

and they'll pick up snakes with their hands.Even if they drink any deadly poison, it won't hurt them, and they'll place their hands on the sick, and they'll recover."

Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

I tell all of you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

So immediately they left their nets and followed him.

Some Pharisees came to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

So he told them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death,

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, went to Jesus and told him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you."

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "See! I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way.

While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

They came and told him, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or shouldn't we?"

When Jesus again had crossed to the other side in a boat, a large crowd gathered around him by the seashore.

As Jesus was leaving the Temple, one of his disciples told him, "Look, Teacher, what large stones and what beautiful buildings!"

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

He called the Twelve and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

Just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens split open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

"So when you see the destructive desecration standing where it should not be (let the reader take note), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

As soon as it was morning, the high priests convened a meeting with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. They bound Jesus with chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

John told Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were throwing a net into the sea because they were fishermen.

Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

So the disciples left and went into the city. They found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

He was also saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

So they asked him, "Don't the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the Temple. He overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of eternal sin."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. Then he told him, "You're missing one thing. Go and sell everything you own, give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

Jesus went into the synagogue again, and a man with a paralyzed hand was there.

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.

Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat repairing their nets.

He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

As they came to Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him.

Then his disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.

"But after the suffering of those days, "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

Now there were women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of young James and Joseph, and Salome.

"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

King Herod heard about this, because Jesus' name had become well-known. He was saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why he is able to do these miracles."

At once the Spirit drove him into the wilderness.

Then Jesus went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him.

When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."

Then his mother and his brothers arrived. Milling around outside, they sent for him, continuously summoning him.

When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

The second is this: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."

Finally he appeared to his eleven disciples while they were eating. He rebuked them for their unbelief and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had risen.

As they approached the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.

Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they didn't have any roots, they dried up.

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans it's impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God."

The next day, as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus became hungry.

Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'

Jesus called his disciples and told them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers among the unbelievers lord it over them, and their superiors act like tyrants over them.

Jesus immediately had his disciples get into a boat and cross to Bethsaida ahead of him, while he sent the crowd away.

As he taught, he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes, to be greeted in the marketplaces,

The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.

He told them, "The secret about the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything comes in parables

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the gospel

They forced a certain passer-by named Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who happened to be coming in from the country, to carry Jesus' cross.

Then they left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus didn't want anyone to find out about it,

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear."

Then Jesus left the territory of Tyre and passed through Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the territory of the Decapolis.

But he told them, "Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him.

The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, "He has Beelzebul," and, "He drives out demons by the ruler of demons."

He appointed the Twelve, whom he called apostles, to accompany him, to be sent out to preach,

Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was at home, he asked the disciples, "What were you arguing about on the road?"

Pray that it may not be in winter,

But Jesus rebuked him. "Be quiet," he ordered, "and come out of him!"

With tears flowing, the child's father at once cried out, "I do believe! Help my unbelief!"

Seeing in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves because it wasn't the season for figs.

It was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath. Since it was already evening,

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees would fast regularly. Some people came and asked Jesus, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years.

Now Jesus and his disciples had been on the road going up to Jerusalem, with Jesus walking ahead of them. They were astonished, and the others who followed were afraid.

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

because false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce signs and omens to deceive, if possible, the elect.

Jesus told them, "Follow me, and I'll make you fishers of people!"

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

At that time, after a large crowd again had gathered together with nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples and told them,

But he kept silent and didn't answer at all. The high priest asked him again, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

Then he told them, "You have such a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your own tradition!

Jesus said, "I AM, and "you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power' and "coming with the clouds of heaven.'"

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, and placed it on his head.

He told them, "Elijah is indeed coming first and will restore all things. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be treated shamefully?

Seeing through their hypocrisy, Jesus replied to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."

The soldiers led Jesus into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters) and called out the whole guard.

They could wear sandals but not take along an extra shirt.

screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of God never to torment me!"

At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.

So they brought one. Then he asked them, "Whose face and name are on this?" They told him, "Caesar's."

But I tell you that Elijah has come, yet people treated him just as they pleased, as it is written about him."

and the one who's in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him.

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

"you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.'

When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.

At this, the unclean spirit shook the man, cried out with a loud voice, and came out of him.

But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

He wouldn't even let anyone carry a vessel through the Temple.

The man replied to him, "Teacher, I have obeyed all of these since I was a young man."

He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever, so they promptly told Jesus about her.

If the Lord had not shortened those days, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen, he has shortened those days.

Jesus had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

So he told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" Now his disciples were listening to this.

He sighed deeply in his spirit and remarked, "Why do those living today demand a sign? I tell all of you with certainty, no sign will be given to this generation."

Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn't have the power."

Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes came up and choked them out, and they didn't produce anything.

While they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me."

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, he should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

He told them repeatedly, "Whenever you go into a home, stay there until you leave that place.

At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. "Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?" he asked them.

Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread along, but they had one loaf with them in the boat.

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

So they were discussing with one another the fact that they didn't have any bread.

The whole crowd was very surprised to see Jesus and ran to welcome him.

Shocked at this statement, the man went away sad, because he had many possessions.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. He fell on the ground and kept rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

When evening came, Jesus and his disciples would leave the city.

Jesus had been warning them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Then the second married her and died without having children, and so did the third.

The disciples were startled by these words, but Jesus told them again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in their wealth to get into the kingdom of God!

He added, "Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

Leaving them, he got into a boat again and crossed to the other side.

There were seven brothers. The first one married and died without having children.

Now some scribes were sitting there, arguing among themselves,

Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

They began to greet him, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

He healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. However, he wouldn't allow the demons to speak because they knew who he was.

When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him, because they were afraid of him, since the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

But Jesus took his hand and helped him up, and he stood up.

He asked the scribes, "What are you arguing about with them?"

He told him, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us." He kept pleading with Jesus not to send them out of that region.

Then Jesus asked him, "What's your name?"

Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn't crush him,

They kept hitting him on the head with a stick, spitting on him, kneeling in front of him, and worshiping him.

For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

Simon and his companions searched frantically for him.

None of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died, too.

In fact, the whole city gathered at the door.

Instantly the leprosy left him, and he was clean.

Remembering what Jesus had said, Peter pointed out to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has dried up!"

"Let's go to the neighboring town," he replied, "so I can preach there, too, because that's why I came."

Back in the house, the disciples asked him about this again.

Then he told them, "You don't understand this parable, so how can you understand any of the parables?

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

But if you do not forgive, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins."

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.

because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.

He told them, "It's one of you Twelve, the one who is dipping his bread into the bowl with me.

Jesus told them, "You unbelieving generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

Others were saying, "He is Elijah." Still others were saying, "He is a prophet like one of the other prophets."

Do you have eyes, but fail to see? Do you have ears, but fail to hear? Don't you remember?

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing on a hillside nearby.

He told the man, "Be sure that you don't tell anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded as proof to the authorities."

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

Then Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

The disciples were utterly amazed and asked one another, "Then who can be saved?"

So he went throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.

and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority to do them?"

But Jesus told them, "It was because of your hardness of heart that he wrote this command for you.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"

But if we say, "From humans'"?" They were afraid of the crowd, because everyone really thought John was a prophet.

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today, this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you'll deny me three times."

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!"

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

But Peter told him, "Even if everyone else turns against you, I certainly won't."

When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.

So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn't do it

and the two will become one flesh.' So they're no longer two, but one flesh.

When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"

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

So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

They were trying to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. Realizing that he had spoken this parable against them, they left him alone and went away.

"What did Moses command you?" he responded.

The farmer sows the word.

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking his message to them

"Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

Then Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the Temple and looked around at everything. Since it was already late, he went out with the Twelve to Bethany.

When they found him, they told him, "Everyone's looking for you."

(The Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Jesus replied, "The wedding guests can't fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they can't fast.

In the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since all seven had married her?"

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."

But when Herod heard about it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised,"

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with unclean hands."

They don't eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the proper washing of washing cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)

Those who passed by kept insulting him, shaking their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who were going to destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days

Nothing is hidden except for the purpose of having it revealed, and nothing is secret except for the purpose of having it come to light.

So Jesus went with him. A huge crowd kept following him and jostling him.

He'll send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven."

The people watched Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.

They noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.

He was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went around to the villages and continued teaching.

They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her."

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

"When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets did you fill with the leftover pieces?" They told him, "Seven."

So be on your guard! I've told you everything before it happens."

He began teaching them many things in parables. While he was teaching them he said,

An opportunity came during Herod's birthday celebration, when he gave a banquet for his top officials, military officers, and the most important people of Galilee.

When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets did you fill with leftover pieces?" They told him, "Twelve."

Then Jesus sternly warned him and encouraged him to go at once.

John had been telling Herod, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

He took Peter, James, and John along with him, and he began to feel distressed and troubled.

Those who went ahead and those who followed him were shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!

How blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!"

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. "Where did this man get all these things?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

This was the Lord's doing, and it is amazing in our eyes'?"

However, after I've been raised, I'll go to Galilee ahead of you."

At the right time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.

In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.'

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

but since they don't have any roots, they last for only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes along because of the word, they immediately fall away.

No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.

How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?"

and told them, "Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you go into it, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever ridden. Untie it, and bring it along.

because Herod was afraid of John. He knew that John was a righteous and holy man, and so he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he did much of what he said. In fact, he liked listening to him.

Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

and to have the authority to drive out demons.

"I have compassion for the crowd, because they've already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat.

The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

He asked them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."

The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs.

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables. "How can Satan drive out Satan?

They crucified two bandits with him, one on his right and the other on his left.

He told the man with the paralyzed hand, "Come forward."

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.

because whoever has something, will have more given to him. But whoever has nothing, even what he has will be taken away."

If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!

Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. He spit into his eyes, placed his hands on him, and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans? Answer me."

But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

So the man left and began proclaiming in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was utterly amazed.

They answered him, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets."

So they began to beg Jesus to leave their territory.

Then he asked them, "Don't you understand yet?"

When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. So the king told the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I'll give it to you."

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

and his clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone on earth could bleach them.

All these things come from inside and make a person unclean."

But those farmers told one another, "This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day."

As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.

But Peter kept saying emphatically, "Even if I have to die with you, I'll never deny you!" And all the others kept saying the same thing.

I tell all of you with certainty, I'll never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

If anyone asks you, "Why are you doing this?,' say, "The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back here at once."

They brought the colt to Jesus, threw their coats on it, and he sat on it.

Then he told her, "Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter."

Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

So she went home and found her child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.

Then Peter told Jesus, "Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

He still had one more person to send, a son whom he loved. Finally, he sent him to them, saying, "They will respect my son.'

Jesus told them, "I'll ask you one question. Answer me, and then I'll tell you by what authority I'm doing these things.

The people ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up the leftover pieces seven large baskets full.

And if a household is divided against itself, that household won't stand.

He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

"Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, execute the farmers, and give the vineyard to others.

If I send them away to their homes hungry, they'll faint on the road. Some of them have come a long distance."

When Jesus came home, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive the spirit out?"

Again, the man sent another servant to them. They beat the servant over the head and treated him shamefully.

So he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to distribute. So they served them to the crowd.

the ground produces grain by itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

Then some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him,

The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?"

"because they had been saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

The disciples told them what Jesus had said, and the men let them go.

Many people spread their coats on the road, while others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.

So they grabbed him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

Then a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with you!"

He kept screaming night and day among the tombs and on the mountainsides, and kept cutting himself with stones.

The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

He swore with an oath to her, "I'll give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom."

So without delay the king sent a soldier and ordered him to bring John's head. The soldier went and beheaded him in prison.

Then the man sent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants. Some of these they beat, and others they killed.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.

Then Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

He had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him.

But when the grain is ripe, he immediately starts cutting with his sickle because the harvest time has come."

But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children's crumbs."

So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. Indeed, his end has come.

Since she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe,

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

So they went and found the colt outside in the street tied up next to a doorway. While they were untying it,

because she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get well."

So she went out and asked her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother replied, "The head of John the Baptist."

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives facing the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew were asking him privately,

some men standing there asked them, "What are you doing untying that colt?"

"As for yourselves, be on your guard! People will hand you over to local councils, and you will be beaten in their synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings to testify to them because of me.

Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all, but rather grew worse.

Then Jesus told them, "A lamp isn't brought indoors to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? It's to be put on a lamp stand, isn't it?

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

They also had a few small fish. He blessed them and said that the fish should also be distributed.

Then Jesus sent him home, saying, "Don't go into the village or tell anyone in the village."

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

(Peter didn't know how to respond, because they were terrified.)

When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, "Listen! He's calling for Elijah!"

When John's disciples heard about this, they came and carried off his body and laid it in a tomb.

Then they took Jesus to the high priest. All the high priests, elders, and scribes had gathered together.

Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw everything perfectly, even from a distance.

Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah!" Jesus sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

He told them, "This is my blood of the covenant that is being poured out for many people.

The king was deeply saddened, yet because of his oaths and his guests he was reluctant to refuse her.

His disciples asked him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, "Who touched me?'"

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

"What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!"

Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.

He was also saying, "How can we show what the kingdom of God is like, or what parable can we use to describe it?

He asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" "Seven," they said.

He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

So they left the tomb and ran away, overwhelmed by shock and astonishment. They didn't say a thing to anyone, because they were afraid.

Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd kept coming to him, and he kept teaching them.

When the centurion who stood facing Jesus saw how he had cried out and breathed his last, he said, "This man certainly was the Son of God!"

Then people will see "the Son of Man coming in clouds' with great power and glory.

because Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him with chains, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom Herod had married.

"Do you see these large buildings?" Jesus responded. "Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down."

Suddenly, as they looked around, they saw no one with them but Jesus alone.

Then Jesus told them, "All of you will turn against me, because it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

Be careful! Watch out! Because you don't know when the time will come.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

When he was alone with the Twelve and those around him, they began to ask him about the parables.

Jesus looked around at them in anger, deeply hurt because of their hard hearts. Then he told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health.

Then he brought John's head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

He told them, "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest for a while," because so many people were coming and going that they didn't even have time to eat.

All of a sudden, there was a man in their synagogue who had an unclean spirit! He screamed,

When evening came, after the sun had set, people started bringing to him everyone who was sick or possessed by demons.

Then they went into Jerusalem again. While Jesus was walking in the Temple, the high priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him

Then he began to teach them: "It is written, is it not, "My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you've turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus told him, "Follow me!" So Levi got up and followed him.

While Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is David's son?

When they take you away and hand you over for trial, don't worry ahead of time about what you will say. Instead, say whatever is given to you at that time, because it won't be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

He was in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by Satan. He was among wild animals, and angels were ministering to him.

He appointed the Twelve: Simon (whom he named Peter),

Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. A crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests, the scribes, and the elders.

because he was teaching his disciples, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. They will kill him, but after being dead for three days he will be raised."

After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Then he continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean,

He told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."

So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men.

because you'll always have the destitute with you and can help them whenever you want, but you won't always have me.

Later, he was having dinner at Levi's house. Many tax collectors and sinners were also eating with Jesus and his disciples, because there were many who were following him.

But go and tell his disciples especially Peter that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."

"Listen! A farmer went out to sow.

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."

People from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, being baptized by him while they confessed their sins.

Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered him, "You say so."

Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."

Then a destitute widow came and dropped in two small copper coins, worth about a cent.

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

The Pharisees arrived and began arguing with Jesus. They tested him by demanding from him a sign from heaven.

because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes and famines in various places. These things are only the beginning of the birth pains."

Then the scribe told him, "Well said, Teacher! You have told the truth that "God is one, and there is no other besides him.'

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's servant girls came by.

So Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea,

A certain young man, who was wearing nothing but a linen sheet, was following Jesus. When the men grabbed him,

But first, the gospel must be proclaimed to all nations.

Now John was dressed in camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

Then a synagogue leader named Jairus arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet

So Jesus told them, "Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were utterly amazed at him.

but the worries of life, the deceitful pleasures of wealth, and the desires for other things come in and choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor? Keep on having salt among yourselves, and live in peace with one another."

As they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were utterly astonished.

He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and told him, "I do want to. Be made clean!"

He told them, "This kind can come out only by prayer and fasting."

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

As for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

I tell all of you with certainty, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter.

Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had just come up, they were going to the tomb.

In the same way, the high priests, along with the scribes, were also making fun of him among themselves. They kept saying, "He saved others, but can't save himself!

At every festival, Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It's better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.

Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the cloth, laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

It's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

who will not receive a hundred times as much here in this world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, along with persecution as well as eternal life in the age to come.

Let the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, since seeing is believing!" Even the men who were crucified with him kept insulting him.

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the Council, who was waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

"Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign when these things will be put into effect?"

Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"" Then he told the paralyzed man,

So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning, or at dawn.

Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (It was a very large stone.)

Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and told the sea, "Calm down! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.

But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, stop being alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,

So he told them, "I'm deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake."

Because Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

They also kept driving out many demons and anointing with oil many who were sick, and healing them.

"Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."

All of you must stay awake and pray that you won't be tempted. The spirit is indeed willing, but the body is weak."

Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat.

Jesus began to say to them, "See to it that no one deceives you.

They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!"

He instructed them to take nothing along on the trip except a walking stick no bread, no traveling bag, nothing in their moneybag.

He went on to say to them, "Pay attention to what you're hearing! You will be evaluated by the same standard with which you do your evaluating, and still more will be given to you,

"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

David himself said by the Holy Spirit, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'

She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

The curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.

Then a cloud appeared and overshadowed them. A voice came out of the cloud and said, "This is my Son, whom I love. Keep on listening to him!"

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

I tell all of you with certainty, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her."

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"