People from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, being baptized by him while they confessed their sins.

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

Then a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with you!"

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day."

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

So Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea,

Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, "He has Beelzebul," and, "He drives out demons by the ruler of demons."

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell down in front of him,

Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years.

Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.

He told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

King Herod heard about this, because Jesus' name had become well-known. He was saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why he is able to do these miracles."

But when many people saw them leave and recognized them, they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.

They don't eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the proper washing of washing cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

All these things come from inside and make a person unclean."

Jesus took him away from the crowd to be alone with him. Putting his fingers into the man's ears, he touched the man's tongue with saliva.

The Pharisees arrived and began arguing with Jesus. They tested him by demanding from him a sign from heaven.

Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw everything perfectly, even from a distance.

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

They kept the matter to themselves but argued about what "rising from the dead" meant.

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

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

So he told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" Now his disciples were listening to this.

Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans? Answer me."

They began discussing this among themselves. "If we say, "From heaven,' he'll say, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

But if we say, "From humans'"?" They were afraid of the crowd, because everyone really thought John was a prophet.

At the right time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.

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

When Jesus saw how wisely the man answered, he told him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one dared to ask him another question.

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.'

He'll send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven."

"Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. A crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests, the scribes, and the elders.

When she saw Peter warming himself, she glared at him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus from Nazareth."

They forced a certain passer-by named Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who happened to be coming in from the country, to carry Jesus' cross.

save yourself and come down from the cross!"

Let the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, since seeing is believing!" Even the men who were crucified with him kept insulting him.

The curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.

Now there were women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of young James and Joseph, and Salome.

When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he let Joseph have the corpse.

They kept saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.