Now John was dressed in camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever, so they promptly told Jesus about her.

He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

He added, "Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all, but rather grew worse.

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

So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward fearfully, fell down trembling in front of him, and told him the whole truth.

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

He took her by the hand and told her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Young lady, I tell you, get up!"

But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.

This is the builder, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn't it? His sisters are here with us, aren't they?" And they were offended by him.

He swore with an oath to her, "I'll give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom."

So she went out and asked her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother replied, "The head of John the Baptist."

Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

The king was deeply saddened, yet because of his oaths and his guests he was reluctant to refuse her.

Then he brought John's head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!"

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

Then he told her, "Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter."

So she went home and found her child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.

Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

Then he told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power."

Do you have eyes, but fail to see? Do you have ears, but fail to hear? Don't you remember?

Then Peter told Jesus, "Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"

They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her."

So he told them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

who will not receive a hundred times as much here in this world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, along with persecution as well as eternal life in the age to come.

If anyone asks you, "Why are you doing this?,' say, "The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back here at once."

But those farmers told one another, "This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

Then the second married her and died without having children, and so did the third.

In the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since all seven had married her?"

Jesus answered, "The most important is, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

because all of them contributed out of their surplus, but out of her poverty she has given everything she had to live on."

"Do you see these large buildings?" Jesus responded. "Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down."

But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, stop being alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,

"At that time, if anyone says to you, "Look! Here is the Messiah!', or, "Look! There he is!' don't believe it,

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me,

I tell all of you with certainty, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her."

Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

So he told them, "I'm deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake."

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

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

Pilate was amazed to hear that Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.

But he told them, "Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him.

When they heard that he was alive and that he had been seen by her, they refused to believe Mary.