And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

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.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him,

When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him.

and had had a great deal of treatment from various doctors and had spent all that she had and had not been benefited at all but had actually grown worse,

"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.

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,

"I pity these people, for they have been staying with me three days now, and they have nothing left to eat.

Jesus asked the boy's father, "How long has he been like this?" And he said,

But they made no answer, for on the way they had been discussing with one another which of them was the greatest.

and said to them, "Go to the village that lies in front of you, and as soon as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

Therefore I tell you, whenever you pray or ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you shall have it.

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 there will be such misery in those days as there has never been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again.

It might have been sold for more than sixty dollars, and the money have been given to the poor."

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

I have been among you day after day in the Temple teaching, and you never seized me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled!"

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

And they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled back, for it was very large.

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.