As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

He proclaimed, "One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be clean!"

He appointed twelve (whom he named apostles), so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach

But when Herod heard this, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!"

Then Jesus and his disciples went to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."

but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared."

So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." Then Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."

He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed.

Now as for the dead being raised, have you not 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 in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and they will mislead many.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.

For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."

But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee."

"I am," said Jesus, "and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

[[Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.