The man's hearing and speech were restored at once, and he began to talk normally.

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.

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."

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

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

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?"

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

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.

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?"

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

Then he began to ask them, "But who do you say I am?"

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan, because you're not thinking God's thoughts, but human thoughts!"

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."

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."

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

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

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

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

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."

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.

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

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!"

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."

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."

"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.

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.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

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.

That's why "a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

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

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

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.

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."

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

Then Peter began to say to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you."

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

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

So Jesus stopped and said, "Call him!"

So they called the blind man and told him, "Have courage! Get up. He's calling you." He threw off his coat, jumped up, and went to Jesus.

Then Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man told him, "Rabbouni, I want to see again."

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.

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

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

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.

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

While they were walking along early the next morning, they saw the fig tree dried up to its roots.

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.

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

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

They began discussing this among themselves. "If we say, "From heaven,' he'll say, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

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

So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." Then Jesus told them, "Then I won't tell you by what authority I'm doing these things."

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

"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.

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

Jesus answered them, "Aren't you mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power?

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?"

When Jesus saw how wisely the man answered, he told him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one dared to ask him another question.

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

David himself calls him "Lord,' so how can he be his son?" And the large crowd kept listening to him with delight.

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

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

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

Many will come in my name and say, "I AM,' and they will deceive many people.

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.

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you will know that the Son of Man is near, right at the door.

It's like a man who went on a trip. As he left home, he put his servants in charge, each with his own work, and he ordered the doorkeeper to be alert.

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.

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

After they had listened to him, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.

When he goes into a house, say to its owner that the Teacher asks, "Where is my room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?'

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

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

Again he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open. They didn't even know what they should say to him.

Get up! Let's go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!"

So Judas immediately went up to Jesus and said, "Rabbi," and kissed him tenderly.

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Peter followed Jesus at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He was sitting with the servants and warming himself at the fire.

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"

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.'"

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

When she saw Peter warming himself, she glared at him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus from Nazareth."

The servant girl saw him and again told those who were standing around, "This man is one of them!"

Again he denied it. After a little while, the people who were standing there began to say to Peter again, "Obviously you're one of them, because you are a Galilean!"

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

So Pilate asked him again, "Don't you have any answer? Look how many accusations they're bringing against you!"

So the crowd came and began to request that Pilate do for them what he always did.

So Pilate asked them again, "Then what should I do with the man you call "the King of the Jews'?"