saying, "Let us alone! What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you arethe Holy One of God!"

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

But he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those who were with him:

Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

But without a parable he did not speak to them. And when they were alone, he explained everything to his own disciples.

Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."

While he was still speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?"

And when he came in, he said to them, "Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping."

And when the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to him, that such mighty works are performed by his hands!

King Herod heard of it, for Jesus' name had become well known. Some said, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why these powers are at work in him."

But when Herod heard, he said, "This is John, whom I beheaded; he has been raised from the dead!"

And the king was exceedingly sorry; but, because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place and rest a while." For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites; as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

From there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house, and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not be hidden.

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They said to him, "Twelve."

"And when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of pieces did you take up?" And they said, "Seven."

For he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid.

And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written of him."

And the spirit cried out, convulsed him terribly, and came out. And the boy was like a corpse; so that many of them said, "He is dead."

Then they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and he did not want anyone to know it.

But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.

He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

And they reasoned among themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken."

And when he came again, he found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to answer him.

Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But the scriptures must be fulfilled."

For many bore false witness against him, but their testimonies did not agree.

Yet even then their testimony did not agree.

Then they offered him wine mingled with myrrh, but he did not take it.

Pilate marveled that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him if he was already dead.

And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph.

And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe it.

And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.

Later he appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.