Jesus told them, "Follow me, and I'll make you fishers of people!"

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

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. So the king told the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I'll give it to you."

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

Some people brought him a deaf man who also had a speech impediment. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

If I send them away to their homes hungry, they'll faint on the road. Some of them have come a long distance."

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, "I'll ask you one question. Answer me, and then I'll tell you by what authority I'm doing these things.

They began discussing this among themselves. "If we say, "From heaven,' he'll say, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

He'll send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven."

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

because you'll always have the destitute with you and can help them whenever you want, but you won't always have me.

I tell all of you with certainty, I'll never again drink the product of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

However, after I've been raised, I'll go to Galilee ahead of you."

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today, this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you'll deny me three times."

But Peter kept saying emphatically, "Even if I have to die with you, I'll never deny you!" And all the others kept saying the same thing.

These are the signs that will accompany those who believe: In my name they'll drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages,

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."