So Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

He at once called them. They left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and went after Him.

Just at that moment there was a man in their synagogue who was under the spell of a foul spirit, and so he screamed,

They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him."

Then four men came bringing to Him a paralyzed man.

And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on.

When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

Which is easier, to say to the paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, 'Get up, pick up your pallet and start walking!"

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said,

Then He said to them, "The Sabbath was made to serve man and not man to keep the Sabbath.

So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

Then He went into a synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

But He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up in the crowd."

So Jesus looked around at them in anger, because He was pained over their stubbornness of mind, and said to the man, "Hold out your hand." And he held it out, and his hand was cured.

I solemnly say to you, men will be forgiven for all their sins and all the abusive things they say.

He also was saying: "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground,

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him.

This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer subdue him even with a chain,

So He let them do so. And the foul spirits came out of the man and got into the hogs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the cliff and into the sea and were drowned.

When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had once been insane under the power of many demons, sitting, with his clothes on, and in his right mind, they were frightened.

And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs.

And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him.

And a man named Jairus, a leader of a synagogue, came up, and when he saw Jesus he flung himself at His feet

Then they began to laugh in His face. But He drove them all out, and took the little girl's father and mother and the men with Him, and went into the room where the little girl was.

He ordered them not to take anything for the journey except a staff, no bread, no bag, no money in the purse;

So they went out and preached that men should repent,

for Herod stood in awe of John, because he knew that he was an upright and holy man, and so he protected him. When he heard him speak, he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.

When a holiday came and Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to his state officials, his military officers, and other leading men of Galilee,

There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.

Their worship of me is but an empty show; the things they teach are but men's precepts.'

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

but you say if a man tells his father or mother, 'Everything I have that may be of use to you is Corban,' that is, consecrated to God,

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

He kept on saying, "The thing that comes from the inside of a man is the thing that makes him foul,

for from the inside, that is, from the hearts of men, designs for doing evil come, sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

All these evils come from the inside of a man and make him foul."

And they brought to Him a man who was deaf and almost dumb, and they begged Him to lay His hand upon him.

Then they came to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to Him and begged Him to touch him.

Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.

But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!"

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

For what price can a man give to buy back life?

For whoever is ashamed of me and my teaching in this unfaithful, sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when He comes back in His Father's splendor with the holy angels."

And while they were going down the mountain, He cautioned them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

A man from the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit.

for He was now teaching His disciples, and saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be turned over into men's hands, and they will kill Him, but three days after that He will rise again."

"Whoever, as a disciple of mine, welcomes one little child like this, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not merely me but Him who sent me."

John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to drive out demons, and we tried to stop him, for he was not one of our followers."

Some Pharisees came up, and to test Him they began to ask Him whether a man should be allowed to divorce his wife.

They answered, "Moses allowed a man to divorce his wife, if he wrote out a divorce charge."

Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother,

Therefore, what God has joined together man must stop separating."

So He said to them, "If any man divorces his wife to marry another woman, he commits adultery against his former wife,

and if any woman divorces her husband to marry another man, she commits adultery."

As He was again starting on a journey, a man ran up to Him, and knelt to Him, and was asking Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get eternal life?"

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!"

It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God."

But Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but everything is possible for God."

"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and scribes, and they will sentence Him to death, and will turn Him over to the heathen,

but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared."

Then Jesus called them to Him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men rule as despots over them;

For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

So Jesus stopped and said, "Tell him to come here." Then they told the blind man, saying, "Cheer up! Get up! He is calling for you."

Then Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man answered, "Good Teacher, I want to see again."

and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and as soon as you get into it, you will find a colt tied which has never been ridden by a man. Untie it and bring it here.

Then they reached Jerusalem, and He went into the temple and began to drive out of it those who were buying and selling things in it. Then He upset the money-changers' tables and the dove-dealers' counters,

Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me."

On the other hand, can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because everybody thought that John was really a prophet.

Then He began to speak to them in stories. "A man once planted a vineyard and fenced it in and hewed out a wine-vat and built a watchtower; then he rented it to tenant farmers, and went abroad.

"Teacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man's brother died leaving a wife but no child, the man must marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

For when people rise from the dead, men do not marry and women are not married, but continue to live together as the angels in heaven do.

men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers. They will get a much heavier sentence!"

Then He sat down in front of the collection-box and was watching the people as they dropped their money into it. And many rich people were dropping in large sums.

And He called His disciples to Him and said, "I solemnly say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all these others who have been putting money into the collection-box.

"But in those days, after that misery, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light,

And then they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds in overwhelming power and splendor.

It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.

It might have been sold for more than sixty dollars, and the money have been given to the poor." So they kept on grumbling at her.

So He sent off two of His disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

For the Son of Man is going away, as the Scriptures say of Him, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had never been born."

You must all keep watching and praying that you may not be exposed to temptation. Man's spirit is willing but human nature is weak."

He came back the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? No more of that! The hour has come. See! The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinful men.

At that very moment, while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a crowd of men with swords and clubs, from the high priests, scribes, and elders.

And a young man was following Him, with only a linen sheet thrown about his body; and they seized him,

for although many men gave false testimony against Him, their testimonies did not agree.

"We ourselves have heard Him say, 'I will tear down this temple built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.'"

Jesus said, "Yes, I am, and you will all see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming in the clouds of the sky!"

But he denied it, saying, "I do not know or understand what you mean." Then he went out of the courtyard and was in the gateway to it.

Then he commenced cursing and swearing, "I do not know this man that you are talking about."

There was in prison a man named Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their uprising had committed murder,

Then Pilate again said to them, "What then do you want me to do to the man whom you call king of the Jews?"

And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You are the man who would tear down the temple and build another in three days!

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see it and believe!" Even the men who were crucified with Him made sport of Him.

So one man ran and soaked a sponge in vinegar and put it on a stick and held it up to Him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah does come to take Him down!"

And when the captain who stood facing him saw that He expired in this way, he said, "This man was surely God's Son!"

And when they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting at the right; and they were utterly astounded.