In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.

And a voice came from heaven:

You are My beloved Son;
I take delight in You!

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.

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

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, and a worse tear is made.

Jesus departed with His disciples to the sea, and a large crowd followed from Galilee, Judea,

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!”

For to the one who has, it will be given, and from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before Him.

A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years

At once Jesus realized in Himself that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My robes?”

“Daughter,” He said to her, “your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be free from your affliction.”

While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?”

He went away from there and came to His hometown, and His disciples followed Him.

King Herod heard of this, because Jesus’ name had become well known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that’s why supernatural powers are at work in him.”

but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

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.)

He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

These people honor Me with their lips,
but their heart is far from Me.

But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban’” (that is, a gift committed to the temple),

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

When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile 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.”

He got up and departed from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but He could not escape notice.

So He took him away from the crowd privately. After putting His fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, He touched his tongue.

The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, demanding of Him a sign from heaven to test Him.

A cloud appeared, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud:

This is My beloved Son;
listen to Him!

As they were coming down from the mountain, He ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

They kept this word to themselves, discussing what “rising from the dead” meant.

“How long has this been happening to him?” Jesus asked his father.

“From childhood,” he said.

He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on Him again and, as He usually did, He began teaching them once more.

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

He said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.”

Many people spread their robes on the road, and others spread leafy branches cut from the fields.

The next day when they came out from Bethany, He was hungry.

He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples heard it.

Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

Was John’s baptism from heaven or from men? Answer Me.”

They began to argue among themselves: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

But if we say, ‘From men’”—they were afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought that John was a genuine prophet.

At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.

This came from the Lord
and is wonderful in our eyes?”

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

When Jesus saw that he answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any longer.

Sitting across from the temple treasury, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the temple complex, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,

For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of the world, which God created, until now and never will be again!

the stars will be falling from the sky,
and the celestial powers will be shaken.

He will send out the angels and gather His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.

Then He took a cup, and after giving thanks, He gave it to them, and so they all drank from it.

Then He went a little farther, fell to the ground, and began to pray that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.

And He said, “Abba, Father! All things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”

While He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, suddenly arrived. With him was a mob, with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.

They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’ cross. He was Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

save Yourself by coming down from the cross!”

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.

Then the curtain of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom.

There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

When he found out from the centurion, he gave the corpse to Joseph.

They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance to the tomb for us?”

So they went out and started running from the tomb, because trembling and astonishment overwhelmed them. And they said nothing to anyone, since they were afraid.