Beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

After John had been thrown into prison Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God.

"The time is now come," he said, "and the kingdom of God is near! Repent and believe the gospel."

"What business have you with us, you Jesus of Nazareth? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy One of God."

But Jesus rebuked him, saying. "Be quit! Come out of him."

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.

"Why does this man speak like this? He blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins but One, God himself?"

"Why do you reason thus in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your cot and walk'?

But to let you see that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins"??e said to the paralytic??11 "I bid you rise, take up your cot, and go home."

The man rose, at once took up his cot, and went out before them all; at which they were all astounded, and gave God glory, saying, "We never saw anything like this."

How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men?

Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they threw themselves down at his feet, screaming out, "You are the Son of God."

Then he went into a house, but again such a multitude assembled that they could not get their food.

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

But some seed fell into good soil and yielded a crop that sprang up and increased, yielding thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold.

He went on to say to them. "The secret truth concerning the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside everything is told in parables,

But those, on the other hand, who were sown on that good soil, are those who listen to the Word, and welcome it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold."

"It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth;

"To what shall we compare the kingdom of God?" he said again. "in what parable shall we set it forth?

and with a shriek he cried out in a loud voice. "Jesus, son of God most high, what business have you with me? I adjure you by God, torment me not!"

When they got to Jesus they found the demoniac sitting there clothed and in his right mind??he man who had had the "Legion"??nd they were awestruck.

"Go home to your own people, and tell them what great things God has done for you, and has had mercy upon you."

"If I can touch even his clothes," she kept saying to herself, "I shall get well."

When it came Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; many, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked; "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, and miracles such as these that happen at his hands?

Then he said to them, "Come apart, yourselves, to a quiet spot, and rest a while." For there were many coming and going, and they could not get time even to eat.

Then he got into the boat beside them, and the wind ceased, and they were utterly astounded,

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people at once recognized him,

"You neglect the commandment of God, and hold fast the traditions of men."

"It is praiseworthy, is it," he exclaimed, "to reject the command of God that you may keep your tradition!

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

Thus by your tradition which you have handed down you set at naught the word of God; and you do many other things like that."

Then he sent them away, got at once into the boat with his disciples. and came into the district of Dalmanutha.

But he turned round, and looked upon his disciples, and rebuked Peter. "Get thee behind me, Satan," he said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but man's."

"In solemn truth I tell you," he said, "there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God, come with power."

"Master," said Peter, addressing Jesus, "it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Then they came to Capernaum; and when he got into the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the road?"

"If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.

If your foot cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to enter into the life a cripple, than to have two feet and be cast into hell.

If your eye cause you to stumble, tear it out! It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God one-eyed that to keep both your eyes and be cast into hell,

but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."

Jesus was indignant when he saw it, and said: "Let the little children come to me. Do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such.

I tell you true that unless a man receives the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not even enter it."

As he started to go forth into the road, a man came running up to him, and knelt down before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Jesus said to him. "Why do you call me 'good'? No one is good save one, God himself.

Then Jesus looked round on his disciples and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"

"My sons, how hard it is for those who trust in money to enter the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

When he had looked at them, Jesus said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

and many kept rebuking him and telling him to be quiet, but he only shouted much louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Then many spread their cloaks on the road, and others, soft leafy branches, which they had cut from the fields;

"Take hold on God's faithfulness," said Jesus to them in reply.

So when they came, they said: "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and are not afraid of any one, for you do not regard the face of men; nay, but you reach the way of God in truth. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar or not?

And Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God, the things that are God's." They were amazed at him.

"Is not this the reason for your error," Jesus answered them, "that you know not the Scripture nor the power of God?

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are in grave error."

Jesus replied. "The first is. 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord;

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.'"

Jesus saw that he had answered with discrimination, and said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that no one ventured to question him.

let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor go in to get anything out of his house;

and he who is in the field, let him not turn back to get his cloak.

For those will be days of suffering the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now, and never shall be.

And had not the Lord cut short those days, not a single person would escape; but for the elect's sake whom he has chosen, he has cut them short.

For the Son of man is going his way, as the Scripture says, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for that man if he had never been born."

Solemnly I tell you I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

But one of the bystanders drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Meanwhile the high priests and all of the Sanhedrin were trying to get evidence against Jesus, so as to have him put to death, but they found none;

At three o'clock Jesus cried in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Then the army captain, who was standing facing Jesus when he thus died, said, "in truth this man was a Son of God."

there came Joseph of Arimathea, a Councilor, honorable in rank, who was himself also looking for the kingdom of God. He boldly went in to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.