And this was his message: "After me there is coming one stronger than I am, one whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

And he went up the hillside and summoned to him those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

He appointed twelve of them, whom he called apostles, to be with him and to be sent out to preach,

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink what I am drinking, or undergo the baptism that I am undergoing?"

They said to him, "Yes, we can." Jesus said to them, "Then you shall drink what I am drinking, and you shall undergo the baptism that I am undergoing;

but as for sitting at my right or at my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined."

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'?

Many will come under my name and say 'I am he,' and many will be misled by them.

And what I am telling you I mean for all??e on the watch!"

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

But after I am raised to life again I will go back to Galilee before you."

But Jesus said, "I am! and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming in the clouds of the sky!"

Now at festival time he used to set free for them one prisoner, whom they petitioned for.

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.