And just as soon as He started to come up out of the water, He saw the heavens split open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter Him.

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

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

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept saying, "He is under the spell of Beelzebub and by the help of the prince of the demons He drives out the demons."

The ones along the path are those who have the message sown in their hearts, but as soon as it is sown there, Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

And He was saying to them: "Take care what you hear. The measure you give will come back to you, and more besides.

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

But as soon as the crop Will permit it, he puts in the sickle, for the reaping time has come."

but when it is properly sown, it comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under its shade."

For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."

and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live."

And He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and rest a little while." For there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and they had no time even to eat.

Now when evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, while He was alone on land.

The Pharisees met about Him, and also some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

He kept on saying, "The thing that comes from the inside of a man is the thing that makes him foul,

for from the inside, that is, from the hearts of men, designs for doing evil come, sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

All these evils come from the inside of a man and make him foul."

For whoever is ashamed of me and my teaching in this unfaithful, sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when He comes back in His Father's splendor with the holy angels."

And He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, some of the people standing here will certainly live to see the kingdom of God come in its power."

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

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and people 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 little children come to me, and stop keeping them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.

For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

So Jesus stopped and said, "Tell him to come here." Then they told the blind man, saying, "Cheer up! Get up! He is calling for you."

Then those in front and those behind Him shouted: "Welcome Him! Blessed be He who comes in the name of the Lord;

But those tenants said among themselves, 'This is his heir; come on, let us kill him, and all that is coming to him will be ours.'

Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

Many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and they will mislead many.

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

But before the end comes, the good news must be proclaimed to all the heathen.

so that he may not come unexpectedly and find you asleep.

He came back the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? No more of that! The hour has come. See! The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinful men.

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

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

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see it and believe!" Even the men who were crucified with Him made sport of Him.

So one man ran and soaked a sponge in vinegar and put it on a stick and held it up to Him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah does come to take Him down!"

who used to accompany Him when He was in Galilee, besides several other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.