Just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens split open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.

In the morning, while it was still very dark, Jesus got up and went to a deserted place and prayed there.

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

"I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!"

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus told him, "Follow me!" So Levi got up and followed him.

because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.

Then Jesus went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him.

No one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his possessions without first tying up the strong man. Then he can ransack his house.

As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.

But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they didn't have any roots, they dried up.

Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes came up and choked them out, and they didn't produce anything.

But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

when it's planted it comes up and becomes larger than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that the birds in the sky can nest in its shade."

A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.

But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"

Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and told the sea, "Calm down! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.

Overcome with fear, they kept saying to one another, "Who is this man? Even the wind and the sea obey him!"

Since she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe,

He took her by the hand and told her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Young lady, I tell you, get up!"

The young lady got up at once and started to walk. She was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.

He swore with an oath to her, "I'll give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom."

Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

Then the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of leftover bread and fish.

After saying goodbye to them, he went up on a hillside to pray.

He saw that his disciples were straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea. He intended to go up right beside them,

Then he looked up to heaven, sighed, and told him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened!"

The people ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up the leftover pieces seven large baskets full.

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples and told them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously,

Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain to be alone with him. His appearance was changed in front of them,

Then Peter told Jesus, "Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Jesus told them, "You unbelieving generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

But Jesus took his hand and helped him up, and he stood up.

As Jesus was setting out again, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Now Jesus and his disciples had been on the road going up to Jerusalem, with Jesus walking ahead of them. They were astonished, and the others who followed were afraid.

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

and they'll make fun of him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him. But after three days he'll be raised."

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

So they called the blind man and told him, "Have courage! Get up. He's calling you." He threw off his coat, jumped up, and went to Jesus.

and told them, "Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you go into it, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever ridden. Untie it, and bring it along.

So they went and found the colt outside in the street tied up next to a doorway. While they were untying it,

While they were walking along early the next morning, they saw the fig tree dried up to its roots.

Remembering what Jesus had said, Peter pointed out to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has dried up!"

I tell all of you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

"Whenever you stand up to pray, forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.

They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!"

because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes and famines in various places. These things are only the beginning of the birth pains."

He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

Get up! Let's go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!"

So Judas immediately went up to Jesus and said, "Rabbi," and kissed him tenderly.

Then some men stood up and gave false testimony against him, saying,

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Barabbas for them instead.

They used to accompany him and care for him while he was in Galilee. Many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him were there, too.

Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had just come up, they were going to the tomb.

Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (It was a very large stone.)

and they'll pick up snakes with their hands.Even if they drink any deadly poison, it won't hurt them, and they'll place their hands on the sick, and they'll recover."

So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.