I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

where He remained for forty days, tempted by Satan; and He was among the wild beasts, but the angels waited upon Him.

Going on a little further He saw James the son of Zabdi and his brother John: they also were in the boat mending the nets, and He immediately called them.

They therefore left their father Zabdi in the boat with the hired men, and went and followed Him.

But Jesus reprimanded him, saying, "Silence! come out of him."

Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill in bed with a fever, and without delay they informed Him about her.

and saying, "Be careful not to tell any one, but go and show yourself to the Priest, and for your purification present the offerings that Moses appointed as evidence for them."

But the man, when he went out, began to tell every one and to publish the matter abroad, so that it was no longer possible for Jesus to go openly into any town; but He had to remain outside in unfrequented places, where people came to Him from all parts.

"Why does this man use such words?" they said; "he is blaspheming. Who can pardon sins but One--that is, God?"

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He turned to the paralytic, and said,

But when the Scribes of the Pharisee sect saw Him eating with the sinners and the tax-gatherers, they said to His disciples, "He is eating and drinking with the tax-gatherers and sinners!"

Jesus heard the words, and He said, "It is not the healthy who require a doctor, but the sick: I did not come to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."

But a time will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast.

No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.

how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"

But no sooner had the Pharisees left the synagogue than they held a consultation with the Herodians against Jesus, to devise some means of destroying Him.

So He gave directions to His disciples to keep a small boat in constant attendance on Him because of the throng--to prevent their crushing Him.

But He many a time checked them, forbidding them to say who He was.

And He went into a house. But again the crowd assembled, so that there was no opportunity for them even to snatch a meal.

So if Satan has risen in arms and has made war upon himself, stand he cannot, but meets his end.

but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, he remains for ever unabsolved: he is guilty of a sin of the Ages."

Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.

Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.

But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold."

"To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;

that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"

Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.

but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.

but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

He went on to say, "Is the lamp brought in in order to be put under the bushel or under the bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand?

Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.

But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."

But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.

So they got away from the crowd, and took Him--as He was--in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.

But a heavy squall came on, and the waves were now dashing into the boat, so that it was fast filling.

But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion: so they woke Him. "Rabbi," they cried, "is it nothing to you that we are drowning?"

for many a time he had been left securely bound in fetters and chains, but afterwards the chains lay torn link from link, and the fetters in fragments, and there was no one strong enough to master him.

But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."

When Jesus had re-crossed in the boat to the other side, a vast multitude came crowding to Him; and He was on the shore of the Lake,

and had undergone many different treatments under a number of doctors and had spent all she had without receiving benefit but on the contrary growing worse,

for she said, "If I but touch His clothes, I shall be cured."

But He continued looking about to see the person who had done this,

But Jesus, overhearing the words, said to the Warden, "Do not be afraid; only have faith."

but He gave strict injunctions that the matter should not be made known, and directed them to give her something to eat.

But Jesus said to them, "There is no Prophet without honour except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own home."

but to go wearing sandals. "And do not," He said, "put on an extra under garment.

But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."

But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "The John, whom I beheaded, has come back to life."

Therefore Herodias hated him and wished to take his life, but could not;

Accordingly they sailed away in the boat to a solitary place apart.

But the people saw them going, and many knew them; and coming by land they ran together there from all the neighbouring towns, and arrived before them.

Immediately afterwards He made His disciples go on board the boat and cross over to Bethsaida, leaving Him behind to dismiss the crowd.

He then bade the people farewell, and went away up the hill to pray.

When evening was come, the boat was half way across the Lake, while he Himself was on shore alone.

But when He saw them distressed with rowing (for the wind was against them)

Then He went up to them on board the boat, and the wind lulled; and they were beside themselves with silent amazement.

For they had not learned the lesson taught by the loaves, but their minds were dull.

But no sooner had they gone ashore than the people immediately recognized Him.

And enter wherever He might--village or town or hamlet--they laid their sick in the open places, and entreated Him to let them touch were it but the tassel of His robe; and all, whoever touched Him, were restored to health.

So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?"

But idle is their devotion while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'

But *you* say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, It is a Korban (that is, a thing devoted to God)

There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean."

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.

Then He rose and left that place and went into the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon. Here He entered a house and wished no one to know it, but He could not escape observation.

So she went home, and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

So Jesus taking him aside, apart from the crowd, put His fingers into his ears, and spat, and moistened his tongue;

Then Jesus charged them to tell no one; but the more He charged them, all the more did they spread the news far and wide.

Now they had forgotten to take bread, nor had they more than a single loaf with them in the boat;

So He took the blind man by the arm and brought him out of the village, and spitting into his eyes He put His hands on him and asked him, "Can you see anything?"

Then for the second time He put His hands on the man's eyes, and the man, looking steadily, recovered his sight and saw everything distinctly.

"John the Baptist," they replied, "but others say Elijah, and others, that it is one of the Prophets."

Then He asked them pointedly, "But you yourselves, who do you say that I am?" "You are the Christ," answered Peter.

And now for the first time He told them, "The Son of Man must endure much suffering, and be rejected by the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and after two days rise to life."

But turning round and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Adversary," He said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."

For whoever is bent on securing his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, will secure it.

when Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, we are thankful to you that we are here. Let us put up three tents--one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Instantly they looked round, and now they could no longer see any one, but themselves and Jesus.

"Elijah," He replied, "does indeed come first and reforms everything; but how is it that it is written of the Son of Man that He will endure much suffering and be held in contempt?

Yet I tell you that not only has Elijah come, but they have also done to him whatever they chose, as the Scriptures say about him."

and wherever it comes upon him, it dashes him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I begged your disciples to expel it, but they had not the power."

"and often it has thrown him into the fire or into pools of water to destroy him. But, if you possibly can, have pity on us and help us."

but Jesus took his hand and raised him up, and he stood on his feet.

for He was teaching His disciples, and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will put Him to death; and after being put to death, in three days He will rise to life again."

But they remained silent; for on the way they had debated with one another who was the chief of them.

If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the fire which cannot be put out.

Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another."

but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, 'Male and female did God make them.

and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but 'one.'

One day people were bringing young children to Jesus for Him to touch them, but the disciples interfered.

Jesus looking on them said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for everything is possible with God."

but will receive a hundred times as much now in this present life--houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands--and persecution with them--and in the coming age the Life of the Ages.

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

they will insult Him in cruel sport, spit on Him, scourge Him, and put Him to death; but on the third day He will rise to life again."

but as to sitting at my right hand or at my left, that is not mine to give: it will be for those for whom it is reserved."

but it is not to be so among you. No, whoever desires to be great among you must be your servant;

For the Son of Man also did not come to be waited upon, but to wait on others, and to give His life as the redemption-price for a multitude of people."

Many angrily told him to leave off shouting; but he only cried out all the louder, "Son of David, have pity on me."

But on their giving the answer that Jesus had bidden them give, they let them take it.