As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "See! I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way.

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

Then a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with you!"

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

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."

As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus told him, "Follow me!" So Levi got up and followed him.

He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of God never to torment me!"

He told him, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us." He kept pleading with Jesus not to send them out of that region.

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."

Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples asked him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, "Who touched me?'"

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."

Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

All of them saw him and were terrified. Immediately he told them, "Have courage! It's me. Stop being afraid!"

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

Then he called to the crowd again and told them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand!

"I have compassion for the crowd, because they've already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan, because you're not thinking God's thoughts, but human thoughts!"

Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples and told them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously,

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father's glory."

Then a cloud appeared and overshadowed them. A voice came out of the cloud and said, "This is my Son, whom I love. Keep on listening to him!"

A man in the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that won't let him talk.

Jesus told them, "You unbelieving generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

With tears flowing, the child's father at once cried out, "I do believe! Help my unbelief!"

"Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."

But Jesus said, "Don't stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name can slander me soon afterwards.

"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

When Jesus saw this, he became furious and told them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

Jesus looked at him and loved him. Then he told him, "You're missing one thing. Go and sell everything you own, give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the gospel

He asked them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

When he heard that Jesus of Nazareth was there, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Many people sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

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

So he told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" Now his disciples were listening to this.

Then he began to teach them: "It is written, is it not, "My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you've turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

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.

Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans? Answer me."

So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." Then Jesus told them, "Then I won't tell you by what authority I'm doing these things."

He still had one more person to send, a son whom he loved. Finally, he sent him to them, saying, "They will respect my son.'

Seeing through their hypocrisy, Jesus replied to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."

David himself said by the Holy Spirit, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'

Many will come in my name and say, "I AM,' and they will deceive many people.

"As for yourselves, be on your guard! People will hand you over to local councils, and you will be beaten in their synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings to testify to them because of me.

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."

Pray that it may not be in winter,

Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear."

Otherwise, he may come suddenly and find you asleep.

I'm telling you what I'm telling everyone: Be alert!"

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me,

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

She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

When he goes into a house, say to its owner that the Teacher asks, "Where is my room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?'

While they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me."

He told them, "It's one of you Twelve, the one who is dipping his bread into the bowl with me.

While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to them, saying, "Take some. This is my body."

He told them, "This is my blood of the covenant that is being poured out for many people.

Then Jesus told them, "All of you will turn against me, because it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

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

So he told them, "I'm deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake."

He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

Get up! Let's go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!"

Jesus asked them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as if I were a bandit?

Day after day I was with you in the Temple teaching, yet you didn't arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."

Just then a rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered that Jesus told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." Then he broke down and cried.

Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?"

At three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?")

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