The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

Then Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

So he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Stand up among all these people."

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.

And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!"

If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!"

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

(For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!")

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind -- the one who had the "Legion" -- and they were afraid.

Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him.

But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years.

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

But he looked around to see who had done it.

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

Now King Herod heard this, for Jesus' name had become known. Some were saying, "John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him."

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

For John had repeatedly told Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

So she went out and said to her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother said, "The head of John the baptizer."

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: "I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately."

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

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

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things.

After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there.

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

They also had a few small fish. After giving thanks for these, he told them to serve these as well.

Now they had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders let them go.

Many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread branches they had cut in the fields.

So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.

In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her."

When Jesus saw that he had answered thoughtfully, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." Then no one dared any longer to question him.

For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had."

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

So the disciples left, went into the city, and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him and lead him away under guard.")

And Peter had followed him from a distance, up to the high priest's courtyard. He was sitting with the guards and warming himself by the fire.

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)

Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them. Then, after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

Now when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.

Then they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them. And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

[[Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

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

Then he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.