Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

"Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And he arose immediately, and took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this."

And he said, "To what will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we use for it?

It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

But others said, "He is Elijah." Others said, "He is a prophet, like one of the prophets."

And he came out, saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

He looked up, and said, "I see men; they look like trees walking."

Having screamed, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."

Truly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he died like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God."