"The time has fully come," He said, "and the Kingdom of God is close at hand: repent, and believe this Good News.

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He turned to the paralytic, and said,

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."

So if Satan has risen in arms and has made war upon himself, stand he cannot, but meets his end.

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

"Listen," He added, "every one who has ears to listen with!"

"To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;

Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.

Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"

But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."

crying out in a loud voice, "What hast Thou to do with me, Jesus, Son of God Most High? In God's name I implore Thee not to torment me."

But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."

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

To this their reply is a scornful laugh. He, however, puts them all out, takes the child's father and mother and those He has brought with Him, and enters the room where the child lies.

On the Sabbath He proceeded to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they heard Him, were astonished. "Where did he acquire all this?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? And what are these marvellous miracles which his hands perform?

But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "The John, whom I beheaded, has come back to life."

"For those words of yours, go home," He replied; "the demon has gone out of your daughter."

Every one, however, who has been ashamed of me and of my teachings in this faithless and sinful age, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels."

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."

Yet I tell you that not only has Elijah come, but they have also done to him whatever they chose, as the Scriptures say about him."

"Rabbi," answered one of the crowd, "I have brought you my son. He has a dumb spirit in him;

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

"and often it has thrown him into the fire or into pools of water to destroy him. But, if you possibly can, have pity on us and help us."

What, therefore, God has joined together let not man separate."

"In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,

"Go," said Jesus, "your faith has cured you." Instantly he regained his sight, and followed Him along the road.

"Go," He said, "to the village facing you, and immediately on entering it you will find an ass's foal tied up which no one has ever yet ridden: untie him and bring him here.

In solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall say to this mountain, 'Remove, and hurl thyself into the sea,' and has no doubt about it in his heart, but stedfastly believes that what he says will happen, it shall be granted him.

"Have you not read even this passage," He added, "'The stone which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:

So He called His disciples to Him and said, "In solemn truth I tell you that this widow, poor as she is, has thrown in more than all the other contributors to the Treasury;

for they have all contributed out of what they could well spare, but she out of her need has thrown in all she possessed--all she had to live on."

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;

and but for the fact that the Lord has cut short those days, no one would escape; but for the sake of His own People whom He has chosen for Himself He has cut short the days.

"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.

It is like a man living abroad who has left his house, and given the management to his servants--to each one his special duty--and has ordered the porter to keep awake.

But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted?

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her? She has done a most gracious act towards me.

What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.

And I solemnly tell you that wherever in the whole world the Good News shall be proclaimed, this which she has done shall also be told in remembrance of her."

A third time He came, and then He said, "Sleep on and rest. Enough! the hour has come. Even now they are betraying the Son of Man into the hands of sinful men.

"Why, what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they vehemently shouted, "Crucify Him!"

In the same way the High Priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on scoffing at Him, saying to one another, "He has saved others: himself he cannot save!

But at three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Elohi, Elohi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"

But he said to them, "Do not be terrified. It is Jesus you are looking for--the Nazarene who has been crucified. He has come back to life: He is not here: this is the place where they laid Him.