Immediately He called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.

Just then a man with an unclean spirit was in their synagogue. He cried out,

Then a man with a serious skin disease came to Him and, on his knees, begged Him: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Then they came to Him bringing a paralytic, carried by four men.

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He told the paralytic,

Then He told them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Now He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a paralyzed hand.

He told the man with the paralyzed hand, “Stand before us.”

After looking around at them with anger and sorrow at the hardness of their hearts, He told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

“On the other hand, no one can enter a strong man’s house and rob his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he will rob his house.

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

“The kingdom of God is like this,” He said. “A man scatters seed on the ground;

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him.

For He had told him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

They came to Jesus and saw the man who had been demon-possessed by the legion, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

The eyewitnesses described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging Him to be with Him.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things?” they said. “What is this wisdom given to Him, and how are these miracles performed by His hands?

He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a walking stick: no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts.

because Herod was in awe of John and was protecting him, knowing he was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him he would be very disturbed, yet would hear him gladly.

Now an opportune time came on his birthday, when Herod gave a banquet for his nobles, military commanders, and the leading men of Galilee.

Now those who ate the loaves were 5,000 men.

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.

Disregarding the command of God, you keep the tradition of men.”

But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban’” (that is, a gift committed to the temple),

And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?

They brought to Him a deaf man who also had a speech difficulty, and begged Jesus to lay His hand on him.

So He took him away from the crowd privately. After putting His fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, He touched his tongue.

About 4,000 men were there. He dismissed them

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

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

Again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and he saw distinctly. He was cured and could see everything clearly.

Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, be killed, and rise after three days.

But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s!”

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

What can a man give in exchange for his life?

For whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

As they were coming down from the mountain, He ordered them to tell no one what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

“Elijah does come first and restores everything,” He replied. “How then is it written about the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

Out of the crowd, one man answered Him, “Teacher, I brought my son to You. He has a spirit that makes him unable to speak.

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],

Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death. Then they will hand Him over to the Gentiles,

But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to give; instead, it is for those it has been prepared for.”

Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and their men of high positions exercise power over them.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”

So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up; He’s calling for you.”

Then Jesus answered him, “What do you want Me to do for you?”

“Rabbouni,” the blind man told Him, “I want to see!”

They came to Jerusalem, and He went into the temple complex and began to throw out those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves,

Was John’s baptism from heaven or from men? Answer Me.”

But if we say, ‘From men’”—they were afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought that John was a genuine prophet.

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Sitting across from the temple treasury, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.

A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house.

And a man in the field must not go back to get his clothes.

“But in those days, after that tribulation:

The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not shed its light;

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

It is like a man on a journey, who left his house, gave authority to his slaves, gave each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to be alert.

So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him.

For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

Then He came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. Look, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now a certain young man, having a linen cloth wrapped around his naked body, was following Him. They caught hold of him,

Then the high priest stood up before them all and questioned Jesus, “Don’t You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?”

“I am,” said Jesus, “and all of you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

When the servant saw him again she began to tell those standing nearby, “This man is one of them!”

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!”

They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’ cross. He was Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

When the centurion, who was standing opposite Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, “This man really was God’s Son!”

When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; they were amazed and alarmed.