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

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

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

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.

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.

When his family heard about it, they went to restrain him, because they kept saying, "He's out of his mind!"

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

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

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.

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

But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.

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."

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

He was speaking about this matter quite openly.

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

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

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

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

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

But they kept silent, because they had argued on the road with one another about who was the greatest.

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

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'?

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

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.

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."

But he denied it, saying, "I don't know or even understand what you're talking about!" Then he went out into the entryway. Just then a rooster crowed.

Then he began to invoke a divine curse and to swear with an oath, "I don't know this man you're talking about!"