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

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

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?"

"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.

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."

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

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

The young lady got up at once and started to walk. She was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.

Wherever he went, whether into villages, towns, or farms, people would place their sick in the marketplaces and beg him to let them touch even the tassel of his garment, and everyone who touched it was healed.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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."

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

Then they crucified him. They divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice to see what each one would get.