The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the son of God.

And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth, a city of Galilee, and was baptised of John in Jordan.

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Immediately afterwards the Spirit drove Jesus out into the Wilderness;

After that John was taken, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were throwing a net into the sea because they were fishermen.

And Jesus said unto them, "Follow me, and I will make you to be fishers of men."

Jesus at once called them, and they left their father Zebediah in the boat with the crew, and went after him.

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbaths, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

saying, "Let me be: what have we to do with thou, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee, what thou art, thou art even that holy man promised of God."

And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Hold thy peace and come out of him."

And the fame of Jesus spread at once in all directions, through the whole neighborhood of Galilee.

and 2:1], and on the [first] Sabbath day Jesus entered the synagogue and taught people.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever, so they promptly told Jesus about her.

Jesus went up to her and, grasping her hand, raised her up; the fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

In the evening, after sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who were ill or possessed by demons;

Jesus cured many who were ill with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and would not permit them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

And in the morning, very early, Jesus arose and went out into a solitary place, and there prayed.

But Jesus said to them: "Let us go somewhere else, into the country towns near, that I may make my proclamation in them also; for that was why I came."

So, Jesus went into the [Jewish] synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching [the good news about the coming kingdom, verses 14-15] and driving out evil spirits.

Then a leper came to Jesus and began pleading with him. He fell on his knees and told him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

And Jesus had compassion on him, and put forth his hand, touched him, and said unto him, "I will, be thou clean."

Jesus immediately sent him away, charging him sternly and saying.

But he, as soon as he was departed, began to tell many things and to publish the deed, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places, and they came to him from every quarter.

Some days later when Jesus entered Capernaum again the news spread, "He is in the house";

Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking his message to them

When they could not get him near to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof under which he stood, and after making an opening, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the sick of the palsy, "Son, thy sins are forgiven thee."

And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit, that they so reasoned in themselves, he said unto them, "Why think ye such things in your hearts?

Then Jesus went again to the seaside, and the whole crowd kept coming to him, and he taught them.

And as Jesus passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sit at the receipt of custom and said unto him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him.

And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat at meat also with Jesus and his disciples. For there were many that followed him.

And the scribes and Pharisees seeing him eat with publicans and sinners, said to his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? And Jesus hearing it saith to them-

When Jesus heard that, he said unto them, "The whole have no need of the Physician: but the sick. I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees would fast regularly. Some people came and asked Jesus, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

And Jesus said unto them, "Can the children of a wedding fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

And the Pharisees asked Him, "Look, why are they [i.e., Jesus' disciples] doing what is against the law of Moses on the Sabbath day?"

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions--

Then Jesus added: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

Jesus went into the synagogue again, and a man with a paralyzed hand was there.

And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him.

"Stand up," Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "and come forward."

Jesus looked around at them in anger, deeply hurt because of their hard hearts. Then he told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health.

Immediately on leaving the Synagogue, the Pharisees and the Herodians united in laying a plot against Jesus, to put him to death.

And Jesus avoided with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and from Jewry,

Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn't crush him,

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

So he appointed the Twelve--Peter (which was the name that Jesus gave to Simon),

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. Then Jesus went into a house.

Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat.

And the experts in the law of Moses who had come down from Jerusalem were saying [Note: This followed the incident of Jesus healing a man with an evil spirit. See Matt. 12:22-28], "He has Beelzebub [in him]," and "He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits."

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables. "How can Satan drive out Satan?

Jesus said all this because these experts in the law of Moses had been saying, "He has an evil spirit in him."

Then Jesus' mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

There was a crowd sitting round Jesus, and some of them said to him: "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."

Afterwards Jesus began to teach by the seaside, and a vast multitude of people gathered about him, so that he went on board a boat on the sea, and sat there, while all the people stayed on shore, at the water's edge.

And Jesus said: "Let any one who has ears to hear with hear."

"You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

Then Jesus told them, "A lamp isn't brought indoors to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? It's to be put on a lamp stand, isn't it?

Take care what you listen to," said Jesus. "The measure you mete will be meted out to you, and more will be added for you.

Jesus also said: "This is what the Kingdom of God is like-- like a man who has scattered seed on the ground,

Jesus also said: "To what can we liken the Kingdom of God?

With many such illustrations Jesus used to tell his message to people as far as they were able to receive it;

On the evening of that same day Jesus said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."

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?"

Jesus rose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: "Hush! Be still!" Then the wind dropped, and a great calm followed.

Then Jesus and His disciples [finally] arrived on the other side of the lake [i.e., the east side] in the district of Geresa [Note: Matt. 8:28 says 'Gadara.' Geresa and Gadara were two towns

Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.

When he had spied Jesus afar off, he ran, and worshipped him,

and cried with a loud voice and said, "What have I to do with thee, Jesus the son of the most highest God? I require thee in the name of God, that thou torment me not."

For Jesus was saying, "Foul spirit, come out of the man."

Then Jesus asked him, "What's your name?"

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

And the spirits begged Jesus: "Send us into the pigs, that we may take possession of them."

And anon Jesus gave them leave; And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine. And the herd startled, and ran headlong into the sea. They were about two thousand swine, and they were drowned in the sea.

And they came out to Jesus, and they saw him that was vexed with the fiend, and had the legion, sit: both clothed and in his right mind; and were afraid.

Then they began to beg Jesus to depart from their district.

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.

Howbeit, Jesus would not suffer him but said unto him, "Go home into thine own house and to thy friends, and show them what great things the Lord hath done unto thee, and how he had compassion on thee."

And he departed, and began to publish in the ten cities, what great things Jesus had done unto him; and all men did marvel.

And when Jesus was come over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea.

Then one of the wardens of the synagogue, named Jairus, came up, and as soon as he saw Jesus, fell at his feet, with many entreaties,

So Jesus went with him. A huge crowd kept following him and jostling him.

When she had heard of Jesus: she came into the press behind him, and touched his garment.

And Jesus immediately felt, in himself, the virtue that went out of him, and turned him round about in the press, and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

But Jesus looked about to see who had done it.

But the woman became afraid and trembled with fear, for she knew what had happened to her [i.e., the healing], so she came and fell down in front of Jesus and told Him the whole truth.

While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue official's house and said [to the official], "Your daughter is dead; why are you bothering the Teacher any more?"

As soon as Jesus heard that word spoken, he said unto the ruler of the Synagogue, "Be not afraid, only believe."

Jesus allowed no one to go further with him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.

Taking her hand, Jesus said to her: "Taleitha, koum!"--which means 'little girl, I am speaking to you--Rise!'

But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.

Jesus left that place, and accompanied by his disciples, came into his own part of the country.

And Jesus said unto them, "A prophet is not despised but in his own country, and among his own kin, and among them that are of the same household."

And he wondered at the want of faith shown by the people. Jesus went round the villages, one after another, teaching.

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

King Herod heard it, for the name of Jesus had become well known, People were saying, "John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and on that account these powers are working in him."

But when King Herod heard [about Jesus], he said, "John, whom I [had] decapitated, has risen."