He kept preaching the following message, "After me there is coming One who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

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.

In the evening, when the sun had gone down, they kept on bringing to Him all the people who were sick or under the power of demons,

and the whole town gathered at the door.

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on.

He went out of the town again and along the seashore, and all the people kept coming to Him and He kept teaching them.

And whenever the foul spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed, "You are the Son of God."

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."

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him,

Then the hog-feeders fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around; and the people came to see what had taken place.

However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."

And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.

Still He kept looking around to see her who had done it.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were dumbfounded when they heard Him, and said, "Where did He get all these things? What sort of wisdom is it that has been given Him? And such mighty deeds are done by Him!

So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,

The apostles returned and met Jesus and reported to Him everything, how many things they had done and taught.

Then He ordered them all to sit down in rows on the green grass.

And so they tumbled down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

and so you set aside what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many other practices like these."

He left the neighborhood of Tyre and went by way of Sidon through the district of the Ten Cities down to the Sea of Galilee.

So the people were overwhelmingly dumbfounded, and kept saying, "How wonderfully He has done everything! He even makes deaf people hear and dumb people talk."

So He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to His disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.

And while they were going down the mountain, He cautioned them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

So He sat down and called the Twelve to Him and said, "If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.

When the other ten heard of it, they were at first very indignant at James and John.

In the morning as they were passing along, they noticed that the fig tree was withered, clear down to its roots.

Then He sat down in front of the collection-box and was watching the people as they dropped their money into it. And many rich people were dropping in large sums.

Jesus said to him, "Are you looking in wonder at these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another that will not be torn down."

let him who is on the roof of his house not go down and go into the house to get anything out of it;

But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you embarrass her? She has done a good deed to me.

She has done all she could; she has beforehand perfumed my body for my burial.

I solemnly say to you, all over the world wherever this good news is proclaimed, the deed that she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

Then they came to the place called Gethsemane, and He said to His disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

"We ourselves have heard Him say, 'I will tear down this temple built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.'"

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's waiting girls came up,

Then Pilate again asked, "Why, what has He done that is wrong?" But they shouted at the top of their voices, "Crucify Him!"

And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You are the man who would tear down the temple and build another in three days!

Now save yourself by coming down from the cross."

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!"

So he bought a linen sheet, then took Him down from the cross, wrapped Him in the linen sheet, and laid Him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a boulder up to the doorway of the tomb.