saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and when that day comes, they will fast.

He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward."

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

And his mother and his brothers came. And they stood outside the house and sent word in to him to come outside to them.

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.

but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.

and then sleeping at night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up, without his knowing it.

But as soon as the crop will let him, the man goes in with his sickle, for the harvest time has come.

yet once sown, comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under the shelter of it."

For he was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of this man."

and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to some quiet place, and rest a little while." For people were coming and going in large numbers, and they had no time even for meals.

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.

Nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him. It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him."

He went on to say, "It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him.

For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly??23 all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."

And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my teachings in this unfaithful and sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes back in his Father's glory, with the holy angels."

And he said to them, "I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the reign of God come in its might."

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, and reforms everything, and does not the Scripture say of the Son of Man that he will suffer much and be refused?

Why, I tell you, not only has Elijah come, but people have treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

When Jesus saw it, he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as they.

And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

And those in front and those behind shouted, "God bless him! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!

But the tenants said to one another, 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and the property will belong to us!'

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and put the tenants to death and give the vineyard to others.

Many will come under my name and say 'I am he,' and many will be misled by them.

But when you hear of wars and rumors of war, you must not be alarmed. They have to come, but it is not yet the end.

When they are taking you off to trial do not worry beforehand about what you ought to say, but say whatever is given you when the time comes, for it is not you that will speak, but the holy Spirit.

Pray that it may not be winter when it comes,

So you must be on the watch, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening or at midnight or toward daybreak or early in the morning??36 for fear he should come unexpectedly and find you asleep.

When he came back for the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough of this! The time has come. See! the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of wicked men.

Get up, let us be going. Look, here comes my betrayer!"

And Jesus spoke and said to them, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber?

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

One man ran off and soaked a sponge in common wine, and put it on the end of a stick and held it up to him to drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah does come to take him down!"

who used to accompany him and wait on him when he was in Galilee??esides many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.