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

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."

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.

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

And looking around at the people sitting about him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

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

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

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

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

And the little girl immediately got up and walked about, for she was twelve years old. The moment they saw it they were utterly amazed.

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

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their minds were blinded.

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

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.

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 Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide.

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

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

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

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 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.

But they did not understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

But he began to swear with the strongest oaths, "I do not know this man that you are talking about!"

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