and out of the heavens came a voice: "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

and found him, and said to him, "They are all looking for you!"

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

Which is easier, to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, "Get up and pick up your mat and walk'?

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. And people came and asked him, "Why is it that when John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are keeping the fast, yours are not keeping it?"

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

And whenever the foul spirits saw him, they fell down before him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"

There was a crowd sitting around him when they told him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

He answered, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

And looking around at the people sitting about him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

The ones by the path are those into whose hearts the message falls, and as soon as they hear it Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

It is different with those sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message,

And the ones sown in good ground are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold.

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him up and said to him, "Master, does it make no difference to you that we are sinking?"

And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us."

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'

"How skilful you are," he said to them, "in nullifying what God has commanded in order to observe what has been handed down to you.

And he noticed it and said to them, "Why do you discuss your being without bread? Do you not yet see nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

He looked up and said, "I can see people, for they look to me like trees, only they are moving about."

They said to him, "John the Baptist; others say Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets."

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

Then Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

And he asked them, "What are you discussing with them?"

and so they are no longer two but one.

But many who are first now will be last then, and the last will be first."

"See!" he said, "we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the heathen

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?"

And Jesus called them to him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men tyrannize over them;

And if anybody says to you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Master needs it, and will send it back here directly.' "

Some of the bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"

and said to him, "What authority have you for doing as you do? And who gave you a right to do as you are doing?"

And they came up and said to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth regardless of the consequences, for you are not guided by personal considerations, but teach the way of God with sincerity. Is it right to pay the poll tax to the emperor or not?

Jesus said to them, "Does not this show that you are wrong, and do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God?

He is not God of dead men but of living! You are entirely wrong."

And Jesus saw that he answered thoughtfully, and he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God!" And no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

When they are taking you off to trial do not worry beforehand about what you ought to say, but say whatever is given you when the time comes, for it is not you that will speak, but the holy Spirit.

But as soon as you see the dreadful desecration standing where he has no right to stand" (the reader must take note of this), "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

Alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies!

When he went back he found them asleep and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Were you not able to watch for one hour?

When he came back for the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough of this! The time has come. See! the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of wicked men.

But Jesus was silent and made no answer. The high priest again questioned him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the son of the Blessed One?"

And some started to spit at him and to blindfold him and strike him, and say to him, "Now show that you are a prophet!" And the attendants slapped him as they took charge of him.

But he denied it again. And again a little while after, the bystanders said to Peter, "You certainly are one of them, for you are a Galilean!"

But he began to swear with the strongest oaths, "I do not know this man that you are talking about!"

Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "Yes."

But Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See what charges they are making against you."

But he said to them, "You must not be amazed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here. See! This is where they laid him.