After John had been committed to prison, Jesus went to Galilee, proclaiming the Good News of God--

The people were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the Teachers of the Law.

As soon as they had come out from the Synagogue, they went, with James and John, into the house of Simon and Andrew.

Being, however, unable to get him near to Jesus, owing to the crowd, they removed the roofing below which Jesus was; and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

As they remained silent, Jesus looked round at them in anger, grieving at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man: "Stretch out your hand." The man stretched it out; and his hand had become sound.

For he had cured many of them, and so people kept crowding upon him, that all who were afflicted might touch him.

And the Teachers of the Law, who had come down from Jerusalem, said: "He has Baal-zebub in him, and he drives the demons out by the help of Baal-zebub, their chief."

This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him.

Some fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and, having no depth of soil, sprang up at once;

And, as soon as Jesus had got out of the boat, he met a man coming out of the tombs, who was under the power of a foul spirit,

And who made his home in the tombs. No one had ever been able to secure him, even with a chain;

For, though he had many times been left secured with fetters and chains, he had snapped the chains and broken the fetters to pieces, and no one could master him.

For Jesus had said: "Come out from the man, you foul spirit."

On this the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country round; and the people went to see what had happened.

When they came to Jesus, they found the possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind--the very man who had had the 'Legion' in him--and they were awe-struck.

Then those who had seen it related to them all that had happened to the possessed man, as well as about the pigs;

So the man went, and began to proclaim in the district of the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and every one was amazed.

By the time Jesus had re-crossed in the boat to the opposite shore, a great number of people had gathered to meet him, and were standing by the Sea.

Meanwhile a woman who for twelve years had suffered from hemorrhage,

And undergone much at the hands of many doctors, (spending all she had without obtaining any relief, but, on the contrary, growing worse),

Jesus at once became aware of the power that had gone out from him, and, turning round in the crowd, he said: "Who touched my clothes?"

But Jesus looked about to see who had done it.

Then the woman, in fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself down before him, and told him the whole truth.

Before he had finished speaking, some people from the house of the President of the Synagogue came and said: "Your daughter is dead! Why should you trouble the Teacher further?"

Now King Herod heard of Jesus; for his name had become well known. People were saying--"John the Baptizer must have risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him."

For Herod himself had sent and arrested John, and put him in prison, in chains, to please Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because Herod had married her.

For John had said to Herod--'You have no right to be living with your brother's wife.'

Because Herod stood in fear of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and protected him. He had listened to John, but still remained much perplexed, and yet he found pleasure in listening to him.

The girl went out, and said to her mother 'What must I ask for?' 'The head of John the Baptizer,' answered her mother.

So she went in as quickly as possible to the King, and made her request. 'I want you,' she said, 'to give me at once, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist.'

He immediately dispatched one of his bodyguard, with orders to bring John's head. The man went and beheaded John in the prison,

And, bringing his head on a dish, gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

When the Apostles came back to Jesus, they told him all that they had done and all that they had taught.

"Come by yourselves privately to some lonely spot," he said, "and rest for a while"--for there were so many people coming and going that they had not time even to eat.

"How many loaves have you?" he asked; "Go, and see." When they had found out, they told him: "Five, and two fishes."

Every one had sufficient to eat;

After he had taken leave of the people, he went away up the hill to pray.

For they had not understood about the loaves, their minds being slow to learn.

When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret, and moored the boat.

But they had no sooner left her than the people, recognizing Jesus,

One day the Pharisees and some of the Teachers of the Law who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus.

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with their hands 'defiled,' by which they meant unwashed.

For a woman, whose little daughter had a foul spirit in her, heard of him immediately, and came and threw herself at his feet--

About that time, when there was again a great crowd of people who had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him, and said:

They had also a few small fish; and, after he had said the blessing, he told the disciples to serve out these as well.

The people had sufficient to eat, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left.

Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread with them, one loaf being all that they had in the boat.

Taking the blind man's hand, Jesus led him to the outskirts of the village, and, when he had put saliva on the man's eyes, he placed his hands on him, and asked him: "Do you see anything?"

As they were going down the mountain-side, Jesus cautioned them not to relate what they had seen to any one, till after the Son of Man should have risen again from the dead.

When Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately: "Why could not we drive it out?"

They came to Capernaum. When Jesus had gone into the house, he asked them: "What were you discussing on the way?"

But they were silent; for on the way they had been arguing with one another which was the greatest.

And, if any one puts a snare in the way of one of these lowly ones who believe in me, it would be far better for him if he had been thrown into the sea with a great millstone round his neck.

Some of the people were bringing little children to Jesus, for him to touch them; but the disciples found fault with those who had brought them.

But the man's face clouded at these words, and he went away distressed, for he had great possessions.

When they had almost reached Jerusalem, as far as Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two of his disciples.

And the two disciples answered as Jesus had told them; and they allowed them to go.

Then they brought the foal to Jesus, and, when they had laid their cloaks on it, he seated himself upon it.

Many of the people spread their cloaks on the road, while some strewed boughs which they had cut from the fields;

The next day, after they had left Bethany, Jesus became hungry;

Then Peter recollected what had occurred. "Look, Rabbi," he exclaimed, "the fig-tree which you doomed is withered up!"

A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.

He had still one son, who was very dear to him; and him he sent to them last of all. 'They will respect my son,' he said.

After this his enemies were eager to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed the parable. So they let him alone, and went away.

And, when they had brought it, he asked: "Whose head and title are these?" "The Emperor's," they said;

At the resurrection whose wife will she be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?"

Then came up one of the Teachers of the Law who had heard their discussions. Knowing that Jesus had answered them wisely, he asked him this question: "What is the first of all the commandments?"

Seeing that he had answered with discernment, Jesus said to him: "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." After that no one ventured to question him further.

For every one else put in something from what he had to spare, while she, in her need, put in all she had--everything that she had to live on."

When Jesus had sat down on the Mount of Olives, facing the Temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew questioned him privately:

And, had not the Lord put a limit to those days, not a single soul would escape; but, for the sake of God's own chosen People, he did limit them.

When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head.

So the disciples set out and went into the city, and found everything just as Jesus had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said: "I tell you that one of you is going to betray me--one who is eating with me."

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. "The man whom I kiss," he had said, "will be the one; arrest him and take him away safely."

Peter, who had followed Jesus at a distance into the court- yard of the High Priest, was sitting there among the police- officers, warming himself at the blaze of the fire.

At that moment, for the second time, a cock crowed; and Peter remembered the words that Jesus had said to him-- 'Before a cock has crowed twice, you will disown me three times'; and, as he thought of it, he began to weep.

A man called Barabbas was in prison, with the rioters who had committed murder during a riot.

For he was aware that it was out of jealousy that the Chief Priests had given Jesus up to him.

And they kept striking him on the head with a rod, spitting at him, and bowing to the ground before him--going down on their knees;

And, when they had left off mocking him, they took off the purple robe, and put his own clothes on him.

The words of the charge against him, written up over his head, ran thus--'THE KING OF THE JEWS.'

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! Let the Christ, the 'King of Israel,' come down from the cross now, that we may see it and believe." Even the men who had been crucified with Jesus reviled him.

All of whom used to accompany Jesus when he was in Galilee, and attend on him--besides many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.

The evening had already fallen, when, as it was the Preparation Day--the day before the Sabbath--

But Pilate was surprised to hear that he had already died. So he sent for the Officer, and asked if he were already dead;

Joseph, having bought a linen sheet, took Jesus down, and wound the sheet round him, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock; and then rolled a stone up against the entrance of the tomb.

But, on looking up, they saw that the stone had already been rolled back; it was a very large one.

After his rising again, early on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first of all to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

She went and told the news to those who had been with him and who were now in sorrow and tears;

Yet even they, when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, did not believe it.

Later on, he made himself known to the Eleven themselves as they were at a meal, and reproached them with their want of faith and their stubbornness, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen from the dead.

So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.