And they were dumbfounded at His teaching, for He was teaching them like one who had authority to teach, and not like the scribes.

Then He went up to her, grasped her hand, and had her get up. The fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

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,

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.

Levi was at table in his house, and he had many tax-collectors and notorious sinners as guests, along with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many of them, and they began to follow Him.

Then He went into a synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

Then He asked them, "Is it right to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" But they had nothing to say.

For He cured so many people that all who had ailments kept crowding up against Him to touch Him.

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."

but when the sun came up, they were scorched and withered away, because they had not taken root.

The ground of itself produces, first the stalk, then the head; at last there is the matured grain of wheat in the head.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower 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.

When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had once been insane under the power of many demons, sitting, with his clothes on, and in his right mind, they were frightened.

And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs.

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.

When Jesus again had crossed in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about Him, as He was standing on the seashore.

Then a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse,

Jesus at once perceived that power had gone out of Him, and so He turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

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

So the woman, as she knew what had taken place for her, though frightened and trembling, came forward and fell on her knees before His feet, and told Him the whole truth.

King Herod heard of Him, for His name was now on everybody's lips, and people were saying that John the Baptist had risen from the dead, and that this was why such mighty powers were working in Him.

For this very Herod had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, just to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

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

She left the room and asked her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" And she answered, "The head of John the Baptist."

Then she rushed at once before the king, and made this request, "I want you this very minute to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter."

and so at once ordered a soldier of his guard to bring his head. The soldier went off and beheaded John in the prison

and brought back his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

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

And He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and rest a little while." For there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and they had no time even to eat.

And they all ate and had plenty.

After He had told them "Goodbye," He went up the hill to pray.

Now when evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, while He was alone on land.

The Pharisees met about Him, and also some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

They had noticed that some of His disciples were in the habit of eating their meals without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to make them clean.

Now when He had left the crowd and gone home, His disciples were asking Him the meaning of this story.

On the contrary, a woman, whose little daughter had a foul spirit, at once heard about Him and came and flung herself at His feet.

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

In those days when a great crowd again had gathered and they had nothing to eat, He called His disciples to Him, and said,

And they had a few small fish, and He blessed them and told them to pass these, too, to the people,

And they ate and had plenty. And they took up the pieces left over, which made seven hamper-basketfuls.

Now they had forgotten to bring any bread; that is, they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

So they were discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.

Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.

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.

But they had nothing to say, for they had discussed with one another which of them was to be the greatest.

Then He took a little child and had him stand in the midst of them; then He took him in His arms, and said to them,

Then Peter started to say to Him, "We have left everything we had and followed you."

And they answered as Jesus had directed them, and so they let them bring it.

And so He went into Jerusalem and into the temple. After He had looked everything over, as it was already late, He went out with the Twelve to Bethany.

And again he sent another slave to them, and they beat his head and treated him shamefully.

He had one more to send, his dearly loved son; at last he sent him to them, for he said to himself, 'They will surely respect my son.'

Then one of the scribes, on hearing them arguing, came up, and since he saw that Jesus had answered them properly, he asked Him, "What sort of command is the first of all commands?"

So Jesus said to him, as He saw that he had answered thoughtfully, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one ventured to ask Him any more questions.

For all of them put in out of their surplus, but she in her want put in all she had, yes, all she had to live on."

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of the people chosen as His own He has cut them short.

While He was in Bethany, He was a guest in the home of Simon the leper, and as He was sitting at table, a woman came in with an alabaster bottle of pure nard perfume, very costly; she broke the bottle and poured the perfume on His head.

So off the disciples went; they reached the city, found everything just as He had told them, and they got the Passover supper ready.

For the Son of Man is going away, as the Scriptures say of Him, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had never been born."

Now His betrayer had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is He; seize Him and lead Him safely away."

And some of them started to spit on Him and to blindfold Him and to hit Him with their fists, and say to Him, "Now play the prophet!" Even the attendants took charge of Him with slaps at Him.

At that moment for the second time a Cock crowed. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And when he remembered that, he burst into tears.

There was in prison a man named Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their uprising had committed murder,

For he knew that the high priests out of envy had turned Him over to him.

And they kept hitting Him on the head with a stick, and kept spitting on Him, and on bending knees they kept doing Him homage.

When they had finished making sport of Him, they took off the purple robe and put His own clothes on Him. Then they led Him out of the city to crucify Him.

who used to accompany Him when He was in Galilee, besides several other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.

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.

When the Sabbath had ended, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Him.

It was very early, just after the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, when they went to the tomb.

Then they looked up and saw that the boulder had already been rolled to one side, for it was a very large one.

Now after He had risen, early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom He had driven seven demons.

But although they had heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

Later on He appeared to the Eleven themselves while they were at table, and reproved them for their lack of faith and their stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had been raised from the dead.

So the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took His seat at God's right hand.