And all the Judean region and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem went out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

And immediately [as he] was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens being split apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.

And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.

And he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

And immediately they left their nets [and] followed him.

And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men [and] went away after him.

And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"

And [after] convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, the unclean spirit came out of him.

And they were all amazed, so that [they began] to discuss with one another, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him."

And the report about him then went out everywhere in the whole surrounding region of Galilee.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying down, suffering with a fever, and at once they told him about her.

Now [when it] was evening, when the sun had set, they began bringing to him all those {who were sick} and those who were demon-possessed.

And he healed many {who were sick} with various diseases and expelled many demons. And he did not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

And Simon and those [who were] with him searched diligently for him.

And they found him and said to him, "Everyone is looking for you!"

And a leper came to him, entreating him and kneeling down, saying to him, "If you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

And becoming angry, he stretched out his hand [and] touched [him], and said to him, "I am willing; be made clean."

And immediately the leprosy went away from him and he was made clean.

And warning him sternly, he sent him away at once.

And he said to him, "See to it that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and bring for your cleansing [the things] which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

But he went out [and] began to proclaim [it] freely and to spread abroad the account, so that he was no longer able to enter publicly into a town. But he was staying outside in deserted places, and they were coming to him from all directions.

And they came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four [of them].

And [when] they were not able to bring [him] to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. And [after] digging through, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying.

And he went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he began to teach them.

And [as he] was passing by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me!" And he stood up [and] followed him.

And it happened that he {was dining} in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners {were dining with} Jesus and his disciples, for there were many and they were following him.

And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, "{Why} do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

And the Pharisees began to say to him, "Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?"

And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he had need and he and those [who were] with him were hungry--

how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests) and also gave [it] to those who were with him?"

And they were watching him closely [to see] if he would heal him on the Sabbath, in order that they could accuse him.

And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians {and began to conspire} against him with regard to how they could destroy him.

And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd from Galilee followed [him]. And from Judea

and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him [because they] heard all that he was doing.

And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him.

For he had healed many, so that all those who {were suffering from diseases} pressed about him in order that they could touch him.

And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, "You are the Son of God!"

And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known.

And he went up on the mountain and summoned [those] whom he wanted, and they came to him.

And he appointed twelve, so that they would be with him and so that he could send them out to preach

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

And [when] {his family} heard [this], they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, "He has lost his mind!"

And his mother and his brothers arrived, and standing outside, they sent [word] to him to summon him.

And a crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers [are] outside looking for you."

And looking around at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

And again he began to teach beside the sea, and a very large crowd was gathered to him, so that he got into a boat [and] sat on the sea, and the whole crowd was at the sea on the land.

And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!"

And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking him about the parables.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

For whoever has, [more] will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."

And leaving the crowd, they took him along, as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him.

And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, is it not a concern to you that we are perishing?"

And {they were terribly frightened} and began to say to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

And [as] he was getting out of the boat, immediately from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit went to meet him,

who {lived} among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him any longer, not 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 had been shattered. And no one was strong [enough] to subdue him.

And [when he] saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him.

(For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, unclean spirit!")

And he was asking him "{What is your name}?" And he said to him, "My name [is] Legion, because we are many."

And he was imploring him many [times] that he would not send them out of the region.

and they implored him, saying, "Send us to the pigs so that we may enter into them."

And they began to urge him to depart from their region.

And [as] he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed began to implore him that he could go with him.

And he did not permit him, but said to him, "Go to your home to your [people] and tell them all that the Lord has done for you, and [that] he has had mercy on you."

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him, and they were all astonished.

And [after] Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to him, and he was beside the sea.

And one of the rulers of the synagogue came--Jairus by name--and [when he] saw him, he fell down at his feet.

And he was imploring him many [times], saying, "My little daughter {is at the point of death}! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live."

And he went with him, and a large crowd was following him and pressing around him.

[When she] heard about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind [him] [and] touched his cloak,

And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing upon you, and you say 'Who touched me?'"

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

And he did not allow anyone to follow along with him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James.

And they began laughing at him. But he sent [them] all out [and] took along the father and mother of the child, and those [who were] with him, and went in to where the child was.

And he went out from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

And [when] the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard [him] were amazed, saying, "Where did this man [get] these [things]? And what [is] this wisdom that has been granted to this man, and the miracles such as these performed through his hands?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they were offended by him.

And King Herod heard [it], because his name had become known. And they were saying, "John, the one who baptizes, has been raised from the dead, and because of this these miraculous powers are at work in him."

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

So Herodias held a grudge against him and was wanting to kill him, and was not able [to do so].

For Herod was afraid of John, [because he] knew him [to be] a righteous and holy man and protected him. And [when he] listened to him, he was greatly perplexed, and [yet] he listened to him gladly.

And immediately the king sent an executioner [and] ordered [him] to bring his head. And he went [and] beheaded him in the prison.

And the apostles regathered to Jesus and reported to him everything that they had done and that they had taught.

And the hour had already become late [when] his disciples came up to him, saying, "The place is desolate and the hour [is] already late.

But he answered [and] said to them, "You give them [something] to eat." And they said to him, "Should we go [and] purchase bread for two hundred denarii and give [it] to them to eat?"

But [when] they saw him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost, and they cried out.

For they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke with them and said to them, "Have courage, I am [he]! Do not be afraid!"

And [as] they were getting out of the boat, [people] recognized him immediately.

And wherever he would go, into villages or into towns or to farms, they would put those who were sick in the marketplaces and would implore him that if they could touch even the edge of his cloak. And all those who touched it were healed.

And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered to him.

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?"

you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother,

There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him [by] going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person."

And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.

And he said to them, "So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything [that is] outside that goes into a person [is] not able to defile him?

But immediately a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, [when she] heard about him, came [and] fell down at his feet,

Now the woman was a Greek--a Syrophoenician by nationality--and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter.

But she answered and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they were imploring him that he would place his hand on him.

And he took him away from the crowd by himself [and] put his fingers into his ears, and [after] spitting, he touched his tongue.