This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.

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

He said, "The time is now! The kingdom of God is near! Repent, and keep believing the gospel!"

"What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!"

But Jesus rebuked him. "Be quiet," he ordered, "and come out of him!"

In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went to a deserted place and prayed there.

"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

"I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!"

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus told him, "Follow me!" So Levi got up and followed him.

How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?"

Then he asked them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on Sabbath days, to save a life or to destroy it?" But they remained silent.

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

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

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

He was also saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

He was also saying, "How can we show what the kingdom of God is like, or what parable can we use to describe it?

Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and told the sea, "Calm down! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.

screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of God never to torment me!"

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

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

He took her by the hand and told her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Young lady, I tell you, get up!"

The young lady got up at once and started to walk. She was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.

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!

When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

Jesus immediately had his disciples get into a boat and cross to Bethsaida ahead of him, while he sent the crowd away.

Then he got into the boat with them, and the wind stopped blowing. The disciples were utterly astounded,

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

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

Then he told them, "You have such a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your own tradition!

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

Then he told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power."

Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.

Leaving them, he got into a boat again and crossed to the other side.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan, because you're not thinking God's thoughts, but human thoughts!"

Then Peter told Jesus, "Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It's better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.

Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor? Keep on having salt among yourselves, and live in peace with one another."

But from the beginning of creation, "God made them male and female.'

Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."

When Jesus saw this, he became furious and told them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

As Jesus was setting out again, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

Then Jesus looked around and told his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!"

The disciples were startled by these words, but Jesus told them again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in their wealth to get into the kingdom of God!

It's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans it's impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God."

Many people sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

So they called the blind man and told him, "Have courage! Get up. He's calling you." He threw off his coat, jumped up, and went to Jesus.

Many people spread their coats on the road, while others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.

Jesus told his disciples, "Have faith in God!

They came and told him, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or shouldn't we?"

So Jesus told them, "Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were utterly amazed at him.

Jesus answered them, "Aren't you mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power?

As for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"

Jesus answered, "The most important is, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'

Then the scribe told him, "Well said, Teacher! You have told the truth that "God is one, and there is no other besides him.'

When Jesus saw how wisely the man answered, he told him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one dared to ask him another question.

and the one who's in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

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.

After they had listened to him, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.

Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished and ready. Get everything ready for us there."

I tell all of you with certainty, I'll never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

Get up! Let's go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!"

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Barabbas for them instead.

Then they crucified him. They divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice to see what each one would get.

At three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?")

When the centurion who stood facing Jesus saw how he had cried out and breathed his last, he said, "This man certainly was the Son of God!"

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the Council, who was waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

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.

So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.