There went out to him people of all classes from Judaea, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem of all ranks, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, making open confession of their sins.

At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan;

and a voice came from the sky, saying, "Thou art My Son dearly loved: in Thee is My delight."

The people listened with amazement to His teaching--for there was authority about it: it was very different from that of the Scribes--

"Let us go elsewhere, to the neighbouring country towns," He replied, "that I may proclaim my Message there also; because for that purpose I came from God."

But the man, when he went out, began to tell every one and to publish the matter abroad, so that it was no longer possible for Jesus to go openly into any town; but He had to remain outside in unfrequented places, where people came to Him from all parts.

But a time will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast.

No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.

Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed Him;

and from Judaea and Jerusalem and Idumaea and from beyond the Jordan and from the district of Tyre and Sidon there came to Him a vast crowd, hearing of all that He was doing.

The Scribes, too, who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Baal-zebul in him; and it is by the power of the Prince of the demons that he expels the demons."

Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.

For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away."

So they got away from the crowd, and took Him--as He was--in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.

At once, on His landing, there came from the tombs to meet Him a man possessed by a foul spirit.

for many a time he had been left securely bound in fetters and chains, but afterwards the chains lay torn link from link, and the fetters in fragments, and there was no one strong enough to master him.

Then they began entreating Him to depart from their district.

Now a woman who for twelve years had suffered from haemorrhage,

Immediately Jesus, well knowing that healing power had gone from within Him, turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

"Daughter," He said, "your faith has cured you: go in peace, and be free from your complaint."

While He is yet speaking, men come from the house to the Warden, and say, "Your daughter is dead: why trouble the Rabbi further?"

But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."

But the people saw them going, and many knew them; and coming by land they ran together there from all the neighbouring towns, and arrived before them.

Then the Pharisees, with certain Scribes who had come from Jerusalem, came to Him in a body.

and when they come from market they will not eat without bathing first; and they have a good many other customs which they have received traditionally and cling to, such as the rinsing of cups and pots and of bronze utensils, and the washing of beds.)

"Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites," He replied; "as it is written, "'This People honour Me with their lips, while their hearts are far away from Me:

"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.

For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed--fornication, theft, murder, adultery,

all these wicked things come out from within and make a man unclean."

She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.

Returning from the neighbourhood of Tyre, He came by way of Sidon to the Lake of Galilee, passing through the district of the Ten Towns.

So Jesus taking him aside, apart from the crowd, put His fingers into his ears, and spat, and moistened his tongue;

From that place Jesus and His disciples went to the villages belonging to Caesarea Philippi. On the way He began to ask His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

Six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John, and brought them alone, apart from the rest, up a high mountain; and in their presence His appearance underwent a change.

Then there came a cloud spreading over them, and a voice issued from the cloud, "This is my Son, dearly loved: listen to Him."

As they were coming down from the mountain, He very strictly forbad them to tell any one what they had seen "until after the Son of Man has risen from among the dead."

So they kept the matter to themselves, although frequently asking one another what was meant by the rising from the dead.

Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?" "From early childhood," he said;

but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, 'Male and female did God make them.

"Rabbi," he replied, "all these Commandments I have carefully obeyed from my youth."

"You know not," said He, "what you are asking. Are you able to drink out of the cup from which I am to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized?"

"We are able," they replied. "Out of the cup," said Jesus, "from which I am to drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I am to be baptized you shall be baptized;

and He said to the tree, "Let no one ever again eat fruit from thee!" And His disciples heard this.

At vintage-time he sent one of his servants to receive from the vine-dressers a share of the grapes.

this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our esteem?'"

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

Perceiving that the Scribe had answered wisely Jesus said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one from that time forward ventured to put any question to Him.

He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite to the Temple, when Peter, James, John, and Andrew, apart from the others asked Him,

You will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name, but those who stand firm to the End will be saved.

For those will be times of suffering the like of which has never been from the first creation of God's world until now, and assuredly never will be again;

the stars will be seen falling from the firmament, and the forces which are in the heavens will be disordered and disturbed.

Then He will send forth the angels and gather together His chosen People from north, south, east and west, from the remotest parts of the earth and the sky.

"Learn from the fig-tree the lesson it teaches. As soon as its branch has become soft and it is bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near.

Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and handed it to them, and they all of them drank from it.

and He said, "Abba! my Father! all things are possible for Thee: take this cup of suffering away from me: and yet not what I desire, but what Thou desirest."

Now at the Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment;

One Simon, a Cyrenaean, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing along, coming from the country: him they compelled to carry His cross.

come down from the cross and save yourself."

This Christ, the King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Even the men who were being crucified with Him heaped insults on Him.

And the curtain in the Sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom.

There were also a party of women looking on from a distance; among them being both Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James the Little and of Joses, and Salome--

and they were saying to one another, 'Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

So they came out, and fled from the tomb, for they were greatly agitated and surprised; and they said not a word to any one, for they were afraid.

But He rose to life early on the first day of the week, and appeared first to Mary of Magdala from whom He had expelled seven demons.

Afterwards He showed Himself in another form to two of them as they were walking, on their way into the country.