and he proclaimed, saying, 'He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;

I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'

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

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, walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea, for they were fishers,

And having gone on thence a little, he saw James of Zebedee, and John his brother, and they were in the boat refitting the nets,

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

And they go on to Capernaum, and immediately, on the sabbaths, having gone into the synagogue, he was teaching,

and they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

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 having come near, he raised her up, having laid hold of her hand, and the fever left her immediately, and she was ministering to them.

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 very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

and he saith to them, 'We may go to the next towns, that there also I may preach, for for this I came forth.'

And he was preaching in their synagogues, in all Galilee, and is casting out the demons,

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 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 again he entered into Capernaum, after some days, and it was heard that he is in the house,

and immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word.

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, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins -- (he saith to the paralytic) --

and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying -- 'Never thus did we see.'

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 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 it came to pass -- he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields -- and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

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 he said to them, 'The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered,

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

And he saith to the man having the hand withered, 'Rise up in the midst.'

And he saith to them, 'Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?' but they were silent.

And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, 'Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

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

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 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 he put on Simon the name Peter;

and James of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he put on them names -- Boanerges, that is, 'Sons of thunder;'

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

and the scribes who are from Jerusalem having come down, said -- 'He hath Beelzeboul,' and -- 'By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.'

And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, 'How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end.

No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.

because they said, 'He hath an unclean spirit.'

And he answered them, saying, 'Who is my mother, or my brethren?'

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

for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

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 taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

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,

and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

He who is sowing doth sow the word;

and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.

And he said to them, 'Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch -- not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?

And he said to them, 'Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;

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 he said, 'Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

And he said, 'To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, 'We may pass over to the other side;'

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 having waked up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, 'Peace, be stilled;' and the wind did lull, and there was a great calm:

and he said to them, 'Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?'

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

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 always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.

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

and having called with a loud voice, he said, 'What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'

(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 those having seen it, declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the swine;

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 he was looking round to see her who did this,

and he said to her, 'Daughter, thy faith hath saved thee; go away in peace, and be whole from thy plague.'

As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue's house, certain, saying -- 'Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?'

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

and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing;

and having gone in he saith to them, 'Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;

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, having taken the hand of the child, he saith to her, 'Talitha cumi;' which is, being interpreted, 'Damsel (I say to thee), arise.'