and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

and immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens dividing, and the Spirit as a dove coming down upon him;

And immediately doth the Spirit put him forth to the wilderness,

and he was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by the Adversary, and he was with the beasts, and the messengers were ministering to him.

and immediately, having left their nets, they followed him.

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

And Jesus rebuked him, saying, 'Be silenced, and come forth out of him,'

and the unclean spirit having torn him, and having cried with a great voice, came forth out of him,

and they were all amazed, so as to reason among themselves, saying, 'What is this? what new teaching is this? that with authority also the unclean spirits he commandeth, and they obey him!'

And the fame of him went forth immediately to all the region, round about, of Galilee.

and the mother-in-law of Simon was lying fevered, and immediately they tell him about her,

And evening having come, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all who were ill, and who were demoniacs,

and he healed many who were ill of manifold diseases, and many demons he cast forth, and was not suffering the demons to speak, because they knew him.

and Simon and those with him went in quest of him,

and having found him, they say to him, -- 'All do seek thee;'

and there doth come to him a leper, calling on him, and kneeling to him, and saying to him -- 'If thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me.'

And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him, and saith to him, 'I will; be thou cleansed;'

and he having spoken, immediately the leprosy went away from him, and he was cleansed.

And having sternly charged him, immediately he put him forth,

and saith to him, 'See thou mayest say nothing to any one, but go away, thyself shew to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing the things Moses directed, for a testimony to them.'

And he, having gone forth, began to proclaim much, and to spread abroad the thing, so that no more he was able openly to enter into the city, but he was without in desert places, and they were coming unto him from every quarter.

And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,

and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken it up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,

And he went forth again by the sea, and all the multitude was coming unto him, and he was teaching them,

and passing by, he saw Levi of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, 'Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners were reclining (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, 'Why -- that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'

And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, 'Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?'

and the Pharisees said to him, 'Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'

And he said to them, 'Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

how he went into the house of God, (at 'Abiathar the chief priest,') and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?'

and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him.

and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against him how they might destroy him.

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

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon -- a great multitude -- having heard how great things he was doing, came unto him.

And he said to his disciples that a little boat may wait on him, because of the multitude, that they may not press upon him,

for he did heal many, so that they threw themselves on him, in order to touch him -- as many as had plagues;

and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying -- 'Thou art the Son of God;'

and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest.

And he goeth up to the mountain, and doth call near whom he willed, and they went away to him;

and he appointed twelve, that they may be with him, and that he may send them forth to preach,

and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up; and they come into a house.

and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,

Then come do his brethren and mother, and standing without, they sent unto him, calling him,

and a multitude was sitting about him, and they said to him, 'Lo, thy mother and thy brethren without do seek thee.'

And having looked round in a circle to those sitting about him, he saith, 'Lo, my mother and my brethren!

And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land,

And he said to them, 'He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,

If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'

for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.'

and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats also were with him.

and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, 'Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'

and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, 'Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

and he having come forth out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him,

because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,

And, having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed before him,

(for he said to him, 'Come forth, spirit unclean, out of the man,')

and he was questioning him, 'What is thy name?' and he answered, saying, 'Legion is my name, because we are many;'

and he was calling on him much, that he may not send them out of the region.

and all the demons did call upon him, saying, 'Send us to the swine, that into them we may enter;'

and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded -- him having had the legion -- and they were afraid;

and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.

And he having gone into the boat, the demoniac was calling on him that he may be with him,

and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, 'Go away to thy house, unto thine own friends, and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;

and he went away, and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus did to him, and all were wondering.

And Jesus having passed over in the boat again to the other side, there was gathered a great multitude to him, and he was near the sea,

and lo, there doth come one of the chiefs of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, he doth fall at his feet,

and he was calling upon him much, saying -- 'My little daughter is at the last extremity -- that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

and he went away with him. And there was following him a great multitude, and they were thronging him,

And immediately Jesus having known in himself that out of him power had gone forth, having turned about in the multitude, said, 'Who did touch my garments?'

and his disciples said to him, 'Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and thou sayest, 'Who did touch me!'

and the woman, having been afraid, and trembling, knowing what was done on her, came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth,

And he did not suffer any one to follow with him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James;

and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying,

And he went forth thence, and came to his own country, and his disciples do follow him,

and sabbath having come, he began in the synagogue to teach, and many hearing were astonished, saying, 'Whence hath this one these things? and what the wisdom that was given to him, that also such mighty works through his hands are done?

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 being stumbled at him.

And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- 'John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, 'Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,'

And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;

And the apostles are gathered together unto Jesus, and they told him all, and how many things they did, and how many things they taught,

And the multitudes saw them going away, and many recognised him, and by land from all the cities they ran thither, and went before them, and came together to him,

And now the hour being advanced, his disciples having come near to him, say, -- 'The place is desolate, and the hour is now advanced,

And he answering said to them, 'Give ye them to eat,' and they say to him, 'Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denaries' worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?'

And they having seen him walking on the sea, thought it to be an apparition, and cried out,

for they all saw him, and were troubled, and immediately he spake with them, and saith to them, 'Take courage, I am he, be not afraid.'

and they having come forth out of the boat, immediately having recognised him,

and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.

And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem,

Then question him do the Pharisees and the scribes, 'Wherefore do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands do eat the bread?'

for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;

and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother,

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'