As it hath been written in the prophets, 'Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --

And after John {had been taken into custody}, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God

and saying -- 'Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they told Him about her.

And at evening, when the sun set, they brought all those who were diseased to Him, and those who had been demon-possessed.

And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him, and saith to him, 'I will; be thou cleansed;'

Then they came, bringing to Him a paralyzed man, who was being carried by four men.

and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, 'Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.

Jerusalem, Idumaea, the east side of the Jordan River, and from around Tyre and Sidon [i.e., cities on the northwest coast of Palestine] came to Him, having heard about the great things [i.e., miracles] He had been performing.

and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end.

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

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

And other seed fell into good soil, and as the plants grew and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times [as much as had been sown].”

and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, straightway cometh Satan, and taketh away the word which hath been sown in them.

And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.

And these are they who have been sown on the good ground, such as hear the word and receive it, and bear fruit; one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred fold.

Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.

But when the fruit has been brought out, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.

and when it has been sown, mounts up and becomes greater than all herbs, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven can roost under its shadow.

And, having been roused up, He rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

This man had been living in the graveyard and no one had been able to keep him tied up, not even with a chain.

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

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

And those feeding the swine did flee, and told in the city, and in the fields, and they came forth to see what it is that hath been done;

They came to Jesus and saw the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the man who had [previously] had the “legion” [of demons]; and they were frightened.

And those who had seen it gave them an account of what had been done to him who had the evil spirits, and of the fate of the pigs.

And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be 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."

and immediately was the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in the body that she hath been healed of the plague.

But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and many who listened to Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things [this knowledge and spiritual insight]? What is this wisdom [this confident understanding of the Scripture] that has been given to Him, and such miracles as these performed 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."

but having been shod with sandals, and ye may not put on two coats.

King Herod [Antipas] heard about this, for Jesus’ name and reputation had become well known. People were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him.”

But when Herod heard [of it], he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen [from the dead]!”

For it was Herod himself who had sent for John and had him arrested and chained up in prison. He did this to please Herodias, who was [i.e., had been] his brother Philip's wife, but whom Herod had married.

For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not permitted for you to have your brother's wife."

Now [because of this] Herodias had a grudge against John and wanted to kill him, but had not been able to.

And the king having been sorely grieved on account of the oaths and those reclining at table together, wished not to refuse her.

And the twelve came together to Jesus; and they gave him an account of all the things they had done, and all they had been teaching.

And having been already much time, his disciples, having come to him, say, This is a desert place, and already the time much:

But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:

for they understood not concerning the loaves, for their heart hath been hard.

(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients;

And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?

and he answering said to them -- 'Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God ;

You are making God's message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that."

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

And they were overcome with wonder, saying, He has done all things well: he even gives back the power of hearing and the power of talking to those who have been without them.

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me 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!"

And knowing [this], he said to them, "Why are you discussing that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

Every one, however, who has been ashamed of me and of my teachings in this faithless and sinful age, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels."

And he answering said to them, 'Elijah indeed, having come first, doth restore all things; and how hath it been written concerning the Son of Man, that many things he may suffer, and be set at nought?

But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'

And wherever it takes him, it puts him down violently, streaming at the lips and twisted with pain; and his strength goes from him; and I made a request to your disciples to send it out, and they were not able.

And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;

And the spirit cried, and rent him sore and came out: And he was as one that had been dead, insomuch that many said, "He is dead."

for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.

And they remained silent, for by the way they had been reasoning with one another who was greatest.

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them.

Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

And Jesus, having seen, felt pain, and said to them, Permit children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

And he replied, "Teacher, I have [already] been observing all these commandments since I was a young lad."

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.

but to sit on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared.

And the ten having heard, began to feel pain about James and John.

saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a [donkey’s] colt tied, which has never been ridden by anyone; untie it and bring it here.

and he was teaching, saying to them, 'Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'

And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

And having remembered, Peter says to him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree that thou cursed has been dried out.

For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.

Or should we say, 'human?'" They were afraid of the people; for all agreed in holding John to have been really a Prophet.

And he called his disciples to him and said, "I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all these others who have been putting money into the treasury.

For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.

And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

And while Jesus was in Bethany [Note: This was a small village fewer than two miles east of Jerusalem], sitting at the dinner table in the house of Simon, the man with an infectious skin disease [Note: This man had probably been healed by now], a woman with an alabaster [i.e., stone] jar of very expensive perfume came to Him, broke the jar and poured the perfume on His head.

But there were some that had indignation among themselves,'saying , To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

And having been evening, he comes with the twelve.

The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

When they had been eating, Jesus took bread, and having given thanks, he brake it, and gave it to them, and said, take it, this represents my body.

and Jesus saith to them -- 'All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

But after I have been resurrected, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”

And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, dost thou sleep? Hast thou not been able to watch one hour?

Then He came back again and found His disciples still asleep, because they had not been able to keep their eyes open at all.

And He came the third time and said to them, Sleep on now and take your rest. It is enough, the hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man has been betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now he who had been false to him had given them a sign, saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he; take him, and get him away safely.

I have been among you day after day in the Temple Courts teaching, and yet you did not arrest me; but this is in fulfillment of the Scriptures."