He was preaching: “Someone more powerful than I will come after me. I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of His sandals.

“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the good news!”

“What do You have to do with us, Jesus—Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

But Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

And He said to them, “Let’s go on to the neighboring villages so that I may preach there too. This is why I have come.”

Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news, with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly. But He was out in deserted places, and they would come to Him from everywhere.

When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

But the time will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul in Him!” and, “He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons!”

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

These are the ones along the path where the word is sown: when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.

But they have no root in themselves; they are short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately stumble.

For nothing is concealed except to be revealed, and nothing hidden except to come to light.

But as soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

And when sown, it comes up and grows taller than all the vegetables, and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.”

On that day, when evening had come, He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the sea.”

For He had told him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

and kept begging Him, “My little daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay Your hands on her so she can get well and live.”

He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Him.

When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they have washed. And there are many other customs they have received and keep, like the washing of cups, jugs, copper utensils, and dining couches.)

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

Then He said, “What comes out of a person—that defiles him.

For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”

If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”

For whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

Then He said to them, “I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.”

Then they began to question Him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

“Elijah does come first and restores everything,” He replied. “How then is it written about the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

But I tell you that Elijah really has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as it is written about him.”

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly coming together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”

And He told them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer [and fasting].”

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me. Don’t stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Then, looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.”

Then those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting:

Hosanna!
He who comes in the name
of the Lord is the blessed One!

“But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

“Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.

Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and they will deceive many.

A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house.

Otherwise, he might come suddenly and find you sleeping.

Then He came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. Look, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

But Jesus said to them, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as though I were a criminal, to capture Me?

Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with Him were taunting Him.

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, offered Him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take Him down!”

When He was in Galilee, they would follow Him and help Him. Many other women had come up with Him to Jerusalem.