"See you say nothing to any one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your purification what Moses commanded for a testimony to them."

No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment, otherwise the patch tears away from it??he new from the old??nd a worse tear is made.

And no one ever pours new wine into old wine-skins, else the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine is poured into fresh wine-skins.

But over and over, he strictly forbade them to make him known.

"Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."

As he caught sight of Jesus from afar, he ran and knelt before him,

Over and over he continued to beg Jesus not to send them away out of the country.

Then summoning the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

When they had crossed over they landed at Gennesaret and moored to the shore.

and began running over that whole country, and carrying the sick about on their beds, wherever they heard he was.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever, for my sake and the gospel's, loses his life will save it.

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

"Whoever in my name receives one such little child, receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me, but Him who sent me."

For whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, in solemn truth I tell you, that he shall certainly not lose his reward.

"See," said he, "we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and the Scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will hand him over to the Gentiles,

"You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority.

Not so shall it be among you. On the contrary whoever would become great among you shall be your servant;

and whoever among you would be first, shall be slave of all,

Jesus sent two of his disciples and told them. "Go to that village in front of you, and immediately on entering it you will find a colt tied, upon which no man has ever sat; untie him and bring him here.

So, addressing the tree, he said, "Let no man ever more eat fruit from you." And the disciples heard it.

Then he sent another slave to them; and this man they knocked over the head and handled shamefully.

"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me.

"From the fig tree learn now her parable; as soon as ever her branches are full of sap and bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near.

Then he came the third time, and said: "Sleep on now, and take your rest! It is over. My hour is come. Look! the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

As soon as it was down, after the high priests had conferred with the elders and the whole Sanhedrin, they bound Jesus, and took him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

For he recognized that it was through spite that the high priests had handed him over.

So Pilate, who wished to make himself strong with the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and gave Jesus over for crucifixion, after he had scourged him.

Over his head there was written the words of the charge against him. "The King of the Jews"

At noon a darkness came over the whole country, lasting until three in the afternoon.