Now after John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and proclaimed the gospel about the kingdom of God.

"because they had been saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

He told them, "The secret about the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything comes in parables

He had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him.

Jesus had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.

When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.

But Jesus wouldn't let him. Instead, he told him, "Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you."

Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years.

Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all, but rather grew worse.

because she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get well."

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. "Where did this man get all these things?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."

King Herod heard about this, because Jesus' name had become well-known. He was saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why he is able to do these miracles."

But when Herod heard about it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised,"

John had been telling Herod, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

"I have compassion for the crowd, because they've already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat.

Jesus had been warning them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Then Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.

Now Jesus and his disciples had been on the road going up to Jerusalem, with Jesus walking ahead of them. They were astonished, and the others who followed were afraid.

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

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."

However, after I've been raised, I'll go to Galilee ahead of you."

Now there was a man in prison named Barabbas. He had been with the insurgents who had committed murder during the rebellion.

Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the cloth, laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph observed where the body had been laid.

Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (It was a very large stone.)

But he told them, "Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him.

She went and told those who had been with Jesus and who now were grieving and crying.

When they heard that he was alive and that he had been seen by her, they refused to believe Mary.