He kept preaching the following message, "After me there is coming One who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

And out of the heavens came a voice, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

Then He went up on the hillside and summoned to Him those whom He wanted, and they went to Him.

And He appointed the Twelve, to whom He gave the title, apostles, to be with Him, to send them forth to preach,

The Twelve whom He appointed were: Peter, the name which He gave to Simon,

But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

Then Jesus and His disciples left Galilee and went to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way there He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

Then He began to ask them, "Who do you yourselves say that I am?" Peter answered Him, "You are the Christ."

Jesus said to them, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or endure the baptism of agony that I am to endure?"

They answered Him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "Yes, the cup that I am drinking you will have to drink, and the baptism of agony that I am enduring you will have to endure,

but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared."

So they said to Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus also said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."

Then he sent a third one, and they killed him, and many others, some of whom they beat, some they killed.

But as to the rising of the dead, did you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

Many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and they will mislead many.

For the Son of Man is going away, as the Scriptures say of Him, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had never been born."

But after I am raised from the dead, I will go back to Galilee to meet you."

Jesus said, "Yes, I am, and you will all see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming in the clouds of the sky!"

Now at the time of the feast Pilate usually set a prisoner free whom the people requested.

Then Pilate again said to them, "What then do you want me to do to the man whom you call king of the Jews?"

Now after He had risen, early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom He had driven seven demons.