And they were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it.

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

For he cured so many people that all who had any ailments pressed up to him to touch him.

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

but when the sun came up, it was scorched, and withered up, because it had no root.

When he was by himself, those who stayed about him with the Twelve asked him about the figures he had used.

The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him,

And the men who tended them ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around, and the people came to see what had happened.

When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.

And those who had seen it told them what had happened to the demoniac, and all about the pigs.

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him.

And he went off and began to tell everybody in the Ten Towns all Jesus had done for him; and they were all astonished.

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him as he stood on the shore.

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

and had had a great deal of treatment from various doctors and had spent all that she had and had not been benefited at all but had actually grown worse,

had heard about Jesus. And she came up in the crowd behind him and touched his coat,

Jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him, and he turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

But he still looked around to see the person who had done it.

The woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward frightened and trembling, and threw herself down at his feet and told him the whole truth.

And he grasped her hand and said to her, "Taleitha, koum!"??hat is to say, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!"

King Herod heard of him, for his name was now well known, and people were saying that John the baptizer had risen from the dead, and that that was why he was endowed with these extraordinary powers.

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

When she had left the room she said to her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" But she said, "The head of John the baptizer."

And she hurried back at once to the king and asked him for it, saying, "I want you right away to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter."

and he immediately sent one of his guard with orders to get John's head.

And he went off and beheaded him 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 rejoined Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to some quiet place, and rest a little while." For people were coming and going in large numbers, and they had no time even for meals.

And they all ate and had enough.

He immediately had his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he was dismissing the crowd.

When he had taken leave of the people he went up the hill to pray.

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their minds were blinded.

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples asked him what he meant by this figure.

In those days when a great crowd had gathered again and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,

They had a few small fish, and he blessed them and told the disciples to pass them also to the people.

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

As they were going down the mountain, he cautioned them to let no one know what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

When he had gone home, and his disciples were alone with him, they asked him, "Why could not we drive it out?"

But they made no answer, for on the way they had been discussing with one another which of them was the greatest.

But his face fell at Jesus' words, and he went away much cast down, for he had a great deal of property.

Peter started to say to him, "Well, we have left all we had, and have followed you."

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

But they answered them as Jesus had told them to do, and the men let them take it.

On the next day, after they had left Bethany, he felt hungry.

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

He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

And they brought him one. He said to them, "Whose head and title is this?" And they told him, "The emperor's."

One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"

For they all gave of what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in everything she possessed??ll she had to live on."

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

Jesus was in Bethany, at the house of Simon the leper, and as he was at table, a woman came in, with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, very expensive; she broke the flask and poured the perfume on his head.

So the disciples started and went into the city, and found everything just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover supper.

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

Now the man who betrayed him had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Seize him and take him safely away."

At that moment for the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And at that, he wept aloud.

There was in prison a man called Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their outbreak had committed murder.

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

And they struck him on the head with a stick and spat at him, and they knelt down and did homage to him.

When they had finished making sport of him, they took off the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. Then they took him out of the city to crucify him.

who used to accompany him and wait on him when he was in Galilee??esides many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

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

And they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled back, for it was very large.

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.

When they heard that he was alive and that she had seen him, they would not believe it.

Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, 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.