I have baptized you in water, but He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

And He stayed in the desert forty days, while He was being tempted by Satan; yea, He was with the wild beasts, but the angels continued to wait upon Him.

He at once called them. They left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and went after Him.

And Simon's mother-in-law was confined to her bed with a fever. So they at once told Him about her.

But Jesus at once drove him out of their presence, and gave him this stringent charge:

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

"Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said,

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. So some people came and asked Him, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples practice fasting, but yours never do?"

But a time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

No one puts new wine into old wine-bottles, or, if he does, the wine will break the bottles, and the wine is lost, and the bottles too. New wine is to be put up in new bottles."

But He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up in the crowd."

Then He asked them, "Is it right to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" But they had nothing to say.

Then the Pharisees went out and held a consultation with the Herodians against Him, to put Him to death.

So He told His disciples to keep a little boat ready for Him all the time, to prevent the crowds from crushing Him.

But He charged them time after time not to tell who He was.

And if Satan has made an insurrection against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is surely coming to an end.

But no one can get into a giant's house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant; after that he can make a clean sweep of his house.

But whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of a sin that has no end."

Then He began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around Him so great that He got into a boat and was sitting in it, just off the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the sea.

but when the sun came up, they were scorched and withered away, because they had not taken root.

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.

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.

Then He put a question to them: "A lamp is not brought to be put under a peck-measure or under a bed, is it? Is it not rather to be put on the lamp-stand?

For whoever has will have more given to him, but whoever has nothing, even what he has will be taken away."

But as soon as the crop Will permit it, he puts in the sickle, for the reaping time has come."

but when it is properly sown, it comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under its shade."

He did not tell them anything except by stories, but to His own disciples He kept on privately explaining everything.

So they left the crowd and took Him in the boat in which he was sitting. And there were other boats with Him.

But a furious squall of wind came up, and the waves were dashing over into the boat, so that it was fast filling.

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him.

And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him.

However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."

When Jesus again had crossed in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about Him, as He was standing on the seashore.

and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse,

But the disciples kept saying to Him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

But Jesus paid no attention to what was said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only keep up your faith."

He let no one go with Him but Peter, James, and James's brother John.

And He went into the house and said to them, "Why do you continue all this confusion and crying? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping."

Then they began to laugh in His face. But He drove them all out, and took the little girl's father and mother and the men with Him, and went into the room where the little girl was.

But He strictly charged them to let nobody know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never fails to be honored except in his native neighborhood, among his kinsmen, and in his own home."

He could not do any mighty deeds there, except that He put His hands on a few ailing people and cured them.

And He continued to say to them, "Whenever you put up at a house, stay there until you leave that place.

But others were saying that He was Elijah, and still others that He was a prophet like the prophets of old.

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

For this very Herod had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, just to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,

So they got off in their boat to be by themselves in a quiet place.

But many people saw them start and knew of it and ran around the lake from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

So when He got out of the boat, He saw a great crowd waiting, and His heart was moved with pity at the sight of them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and so He proceeded to teach them a number of things.

But He answered them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." Then they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

Then He insisted that the disciples at once get into their boat and cross ahead of Him toward Bethsaida, while He was sending the crowd away.

Now when evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, while He was alone on land.

But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost and screamed aloud,

for they all saw Him and were terrified. But He at once spoke to them and said, "Keep up courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

Then He went up to them and got into the boat, and the wind lulled. They were completely dumbfounded,

They crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret and anchored the boat.

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized Him

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

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.'

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death,'

but you say if a man tells his father or mother, 'Everything I have that may be of use to you is Corban,' that is, consecrated to God,

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."

because it does not reach his heart but only his stomach, and then passes off into the waste?" In thus speaking He made all foods clean.

Then He left there and went into the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wanted no one to know that He was there. But He could not escape public notice.

But He was saying to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it out to the house dogs."

But she answered Him, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs under the table usually eat the crumbs the children drop."

She went home and found her daughter lying in bed, and the demon gone out.

So He took him off from the crowd by himself and put His fingers in his ears and touched his tongue with saliva.

Then He charged them not to tell anybody about it, but the more He kept charging them, the more they kept spreading the news.

But His disciples answered Him, "Where can anyone get bread enough here in this destitute place, to give these people plenty?"

And He at once got into the boat and crossed to the district of Dalmanutha.

But He sighed in spirit and said, "Why do the people of these times ask for a spectacular sign? I solemnly say, no sign at all will be given them."

And He left them and again got into the boat and crossed to the other side.

Now they had forgotten to bring any bread; that is, they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

He looked up and answered, "I see the people, but they look to me like trees moving around."

But He strictly warned them not to tell this about Him to anybody.

Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.

But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!"

Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

Then Peter interrupted and said to Jesus, "Teacher, it is good for us to be here. So let us put up three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

And as quick as a flash, on looking around, they saw no one with them but Jesus by Himself.

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and people treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

Wherever it seizes him, it convulses him, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth; and he is wasting away. So I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they could not do it."

He answered them, "Oh, you unbelieving people of the times! How long must I be with you! How long must I put up with you! Bring him to me."

and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!"

But Jesus grasped his hand and raised him, and he got up.

for He was now teaching His disciples, and saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be turned over into men's hands, and they will kill Him, but three days after that He will rise again."

But they did not understand what this statement meant, and they were afraid to ask Him.

But they had nothing to say, for they had discussed with one another which of them was to be the greatest.

"Whoever, as a disciple of mine, welcomes one little child like this, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not merely me but Him who sent me."

If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.

And if your foot makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life crippled than keep both your feet and be thrown into the pit.