He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God,

Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men."

Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

Simon and those who were with him followed after him;

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.

But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."

But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."

After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.