And out of the heavens came a voice, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

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

When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

Now Jesus at once felt in His spirit that they were arguing about this, and said, "Why are you arguing to yourselves about this?

Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, 'Get up, pick up your pallet and start walking!"

So the Pharisees were saying to Him, "Just look! Why are they doing on the Sabbath what it is against the law to do?"

And whenever the foul spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed, "You are the Son of God."

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

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

Then looking around at the people sitting about Him, He said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.

Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that

The ones along the path are those who have the message sown in their hearts, but as soon as it is sown there, Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

In like manner these are the ones sown on rocky ground; as soon as they hear the truth, they accept it with ecstasy,

A different class are those people sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message,

And the people sown in rich soil 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. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

Then He asked them, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith yet?"

He asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were dumbfounded when they heard Him, and said, "Where did He get all these things? What sort of wisdom is it that has been given Him? And such mighty deeds are done by Him!

But He answered them, "Isaiah beautifully prophesied about you hypocrites; as the Scripture says: "'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;

Their worship of me is but an empty show; the things they teach are but men's precepts.'

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

And if I send them home hungry, they will give out on the road, for some of them are a long way from home."

And as He noticed it He said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

They answered Him, "John the Baptist; others say, Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets."

Then He began to ask them, "Who do you yourselves say that I am?" Peter answered Him, "You are the Christ."

Then He asked them, "Why are you arguing with them?"

and he and his wife must become one,' so they are no longer two but one.

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

"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and scribes, and they will sentence Him to death, and will turn Him over to the heathen,

Jesus said to them, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or endure the baptism of agony that I am to endure?"

but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared."

Then 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 rule as despots over them;

And if anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' answer, 'The Lord needs it, and will soon send it back here.'"

but some bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"

Should we pay it, or should we not?" Now because He saw their pretense, He said to them, "Why are you testing me so? Bring me a twenty-cent coin to look at."

Jesus said to them, "Does not this prove that you are wrong in your views, because you do not understand either the Scriptures or the power of God?

For when people rise from the dead, men do not marry and women are not married, but continue to live together as the angels in heaven do.

He is not the God of dead but of living people! You are entirely wrong in your views."

So Jesus said to him, as He saw that he had answered thoughtfully, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one ventured to ask Him any more questions.

Jesus said to him, "Are you looking in wonder at these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another that will not be torn down."

Alas for the women who are expectant mothers and those who have nursing babies, in those days!

And He went back and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch a single hour?

He came back the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? No more of that! The hour has come. See! The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinful men.

Then the high priest arose in the midst and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What about this testimony they are giving against you?"

But He kept silent and made no answer at all. So the high priest again questioned Him in these words, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

But he denied it again. And again a few minutes later the bystanders began to say to Peter, "You are surely one of them, for you are a Galilean too."

Then he commenced cursing and swearing, "I do not know this man that you are talking about."

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

Then again Pilate asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? Just see how many charges they are making against you!"

And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You are the man who would tear down the temple and build another in three days!

But he said to them, "You must not be so astounded; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified. He has risen; He is not here. See! Here is the spot where they laid Him.