Now about that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

Now there was in their Synagogue at the time a man under the power of a foul spirit, who called out:

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying ill with fever, and they at once told Jesus about her.

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came and asked Jesus: "Why is it that John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?"

Now King Herod heard of Jesus; for his name had become well known. People were saying--"John the Baptizer must have risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him."

Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread with them, one loaf being all that they had in the boat.

"Do not you understand now?" he repeated.

And suddenly, on looking round, they saw that there was now no one with them but Jesus alone.

Who will not receive a hundred times as much, even now in the present--houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though not without persecutions, and, in the age that is coming, Immortal Life.

But many who are first now will then be last, and the last will be first."

Now the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law heard this and began to look for some way of putting Jesus to death; for they were afraid of him, since all the people were greatly impressed by his teaching.

Have you never read this passage of Scripture?--'The very stone which the builders despised has now itself become the corner- stone;

For those days will be a time of distress, the like of which has not occurred from the beginning of God's creation until now-- and never will again.

It was now two days before the Festival of the Passover and the Unleavened bread. The Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law were looking for an opportunity to arrest Jesus by stealth, and to put him to death;

A third time he came, and said to them: "Sleep on now, and rest yourselves. Enough! My time has come. Hark! the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of wicked men.

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. "The man whom I kiss," he had said, "will be the one; arrest him and take him away safely."

Some of those present began to spit at him, and to blindfold his eyes, and strike him, saying, as they did so, "Now play the Prophet!" and even the police-officers received him with blows.

Now, at the Feast, Pilate used to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might ask for.

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! Let the Christ, the 'King of Israel,' come down from the cross now, that we may see it and believe." Even the men who had been crucified with Jesus reviled him.

She went and told the news to those who had been with him and who were now in sorrow and tears;