so Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men."

And at that very moment, there in their synagogue, a man in the grip of an unclean spirit shrieked out.

and every one was amazed so that they began questioning among themselves. "What does this mean? A new teaching with authority? He lays commands even upon unclean spirits and they obey him."

While he was speaking his message, they came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four men.

"Why does this man speak like this? He blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins but One, God himself?"

But to let you see that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins"??e said to the paralytic??11 "I bid you rise, take up your cot, and go home."

The man rose, at once took up his cot, and went out before them all; at which they were all astounded, and gave God glory, saying, "We never saw anything like this."

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which none but priests may eat, and gave some to his men?

"The Sabbath," he told them, "was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

so the Son of man is Master even of the Sabbath."

Again he went into a synagogue where there was a man with his hand withered.

"Stand up," Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "and come forward."

They were silent. Then looking around upon them with anger, and deeply grieved by the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" He stretched it out, and the hand was at once completely restored.

"Indeed, no one can enter the strong man's house and carry off his property without first binding the strong man; then he can plunder his house.

In solemn truth I tell you that the sons of men shall be forgiven all their sins and all the blasphemies they may utter,

If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

"It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth;

Then as soon as the crop is ready the man has the sickle put in at once, because harvest-time is come.

and he had no sooner stepped out of the boat, than a man out of the tombs came to meet him, a man with an unclean spirit,

Not even with a chain could any man bind him, for he had been bound with fetters and chains again and again, and had snapped the chains, and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him.

For Jesus was saying, "Foul spirit, come out of the man."

He continued asking him, "What is your mane?" "Legion is my name, for we are many."

When they got to Jesus they found the demoniac sitting there clothed and in his right mind??he man who had had the "Legion"??nd they were awestruck.

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging to go with him; but he said,

So he went and began to publish abroad in the District of the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and every one was astonished and all men marveled.

While he was still speaking men came from the house of the warden of the synagogue to tell him, "Your daughter is dead, why trouble the Teacher any further?"

When it came Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; many, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked; "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, and miracles such as these that happen at his hands?

So they fared forth and summoned men to repentance.

but she could not, for Herod was afraid of John because he knew that he was a just and holy man. So he kept him safe. When he listened to John he was much exercised, yet he found pleasure in listening to him.

Then came a convenient day, when Herod on his birthday held a feast for his lords and generals and the leading men of Galilee,

Those who ate the bread were five thousand adult men.

"You neglect the commandment of God, and hold fast the traditions of men."

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,

"What comes out of a man," he continued, "is what defiles him.

From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes??22 fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly??23 all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man."

And they brought to him a deaf man who stammered, and begged him to lay his hands upon him.

So Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his finger in the man's ears, and moistened his tongue with saliva;

"Where will it be possible," answered his disciples, "for one to fill these men with bread in a lonely place like this?"

Then they came to Bethsaida, where some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and begged him to touch him.

Taking the blind man by the hand, he led him outside the village; and, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked, "Can you make out anything?"

The man looked up and said, "I can make out the people, for as they move about, I see them like trees."

Then Jesus again put his hands on the man's eyes; and the man, staring straight ahead, recovered his sight and continued to see everything perfectly.

and he began to explain to them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests, and the Scribes, and be put to death, and after two days rise again.

But he turned round, and looked upon his disciples, and rebuked Peter. "Get thee behind me, Satan," he said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but man's."

Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own life?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

As they came down the mountain he strictly forbade them to narrate to any one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead.

"Elijah does indeed first come," he said, "and restores all things, But how is it written about the Son of Man, that he will endure great suffering, and be rejected?

for he was explaining to his disciples that the Son of man was to be betrayed into the hands of men, and that they would put him to death, but that after he had been put to death, he would rise again after three days,

"Master," said John, "we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he did not follow us."

Presently some Pharisees came up and tested him, by asking if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife.

"Moses," said they, "permitted a man to draw up a bill of separation and divorce her."

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh;

What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."

"Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

and if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

I tell you true that unless a man receives the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not even enter it."

As he started to go forth into the road, a man came running up to him, and knelt down before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

"My sons, how hard it is for those who trust in money to enter the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

When he had looked at them, Jesus said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's,

"See," said he, "we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and the Scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will hand him over to the Gentiles,

but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

Then Jesus stood still, saying, "Call him." So they called the blind man, and said, "Courage, rise, he is calling you."

The man threw off his cloak, sprang to his feet, and came to Jesus.

"What do you want me to do?" said Jesus, addressing him. And the blind man answered, "O Rabboni, that I might receive my sight!"

Jesus sent two of his disciples and told them. "Go to that village in front of you, and immediately on entering it you will find a colt tied, upon which no man has ever sat; untie him and bring him here.

And if any man asks you, 'Why are you doing that?" answer, 'The Lord has need of him, and he will immediately send him back.'"

So, addressing the tree, he said, "Let no man ever more eat fruit from you." And the disciples heard it.

Presently they reached Jerusalem, and, after entering the Temple courts, Jesus began to drive out those who were buying and selling there, and to upset the tables of the money-changers, and the stalls of those who sold doves,

The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me!"

On the other hand, if we say, 'From men'!" They were afraid, however, of the people, for every one held that John had been really a prophet.

Presently Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "There was once a man," he said, "who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine-press, built a tower, rented it to tenants, and went abroad.

Then he sent another slave to them; and this man they knocked over the head and handled shamefully.

So when they came, they said: "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and are not afraid of any one, for you do not regard the face of men; nay, but you reach the way of God in truth. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar or not?

Then came up some Sadducees, men who say there is no resurrection. They too questioned him, saying.

"Teacher, Moses taught us that if a man's brother die, and leave a wife behind him, but no child, that his brother is to marry the widow and to raise up a family for his brother.

When they rise from the dead men do not marry, and women are not given in marriage, but they are as the angels are in heaven.

You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

"But when the tribulation is past, in those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light,

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

Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch;

and they were glad when they heard it, and promised to pay him money. So he kept looking for an opportunity to betray him.

Then he sent two of his disciples, and told them. "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jar of water.

For the Son of man is going his way, as the Scripture says, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for that man if he had never been born."

Then he came the third time, and said: "Sleep on now, and take your rest! It is over. My hour is come. Look! the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now the betrayer had given them a sign. "The one I kiss," he said, "is the man. Arrest him, and take him away safely."

One young man, however, began following him, with only a linen sheet thrown round his naked body.

"I am," Jesus answered, "and you all shall see the Son of man seated on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

But he began with curses an solemn oaths to say, "I do not know the man you are talking about."

A man named Barabbas was there in prison, with some rioters who had committed murder during an uprising.

Then a man ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, and put it on a stick, and offered it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down!"

Then the army captain, who was standing facing Jesus when he thus died, said, "in truth this man was a Son of God."

and upon entering the tomb they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe.