Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,

When evening came, after the sun had set, they began bringing to Him all who were ill and those who were demon-possessed.

And the whole city had gathered at the door.

When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.

Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him.

Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;

because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

For He had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what it was that had happened.

They *came to Jesus and *observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the “legion”; and they became frightened.

Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine.

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him.

And He did not let him, but He *said to him, “Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.”

And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

When Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him; and so He stayed by the seashore.

A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse—

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?”

And He looked around to see the woman who had done this.

But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him.”

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death and could not do so;

And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”

Immediately she came in a hurry to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring back his head. And he went and had him beheaded in the prison,

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

The apostles *gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that they had done and taught.

for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

When they had crossed over they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,

and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

Jesus got up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice.

But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet.

In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples and *said to them,

They also had a few small fish; and after He had blessed them, He ordered these to be served as well.

And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.

As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead.

But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

They spoke to them just as Jesus had told them, and they gave them permission.

And many spread their coats in the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.

On the next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry.

Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

In the resurrection, when they rise again, which one’s wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions.

for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on.”

Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance.

“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

The disciples went out and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

For the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

Now he who was betraying Him had given them a signal, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him and lead Him away under guard.”

Peter had followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers and warming himself at the fire.

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he began to weep.

The man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.

The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.

For he was aware that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.

They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.

After they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they *led Him out to crucify Him.

When evening had already come, because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

Very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

Looking up, they *saw that the stone had been rolled away, although it was extremely large.

They went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

She went and reported to those who had been with Him, while they were mourning and weeping.

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

Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.

So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.