All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.

He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.

Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.

Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

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

The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!"

The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.

At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.

He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.

Simon and those who were with him followed after him;

and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."

A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean."

When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.

He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,

and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.

Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.

When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.

It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry -- he, and those who were with him?

How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.

For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"

He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.

He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

They began to beg him to depart from their region.

As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.

having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.

King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him."

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.

Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't,

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."

Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.

They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;

for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid."

When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,

Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

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

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

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