I have baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the holy Spirit."

And he remained in the desert for forty days, and Satan tried to tempt him there; and he was among the wild animals; but the angels waited on him.

He went on a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; they too were in their boat putting their nets in order.

He immediately called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went off after him.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her.

saying to him, "See that you say nothing about this to anybody, but begone! show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure make the offerings for your purification which Moses prescribed."

But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

"Why does this man talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But to let you know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralytic he said,

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and when that day comes, they will fast.

And no one pours new wine into old wine-skins; or if he does, the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins too. New wine has to be put into fresh skins."

How is it that he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the Presentation Loaves, which it is against the law for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions too?"

And he said to them, "Is it allowable to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them harm? To save life or kill?" But they made no answer.

He told his disciples to have a boat always ready for his use, to prevent his being crushed by the crowd.

And if Satan has rebelled against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is coming to his end.

But no one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his property unless he first binds the strong man; after that he can plunder his house.

But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin."

Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.

but when the sun came up, it was scorched, and withered up, because it had no root.

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.

but the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich and passions for other things creep in and choke the message out and it yields nothing.

"Do people get out the lamp," he said to them, "and then put it under the peck-measure, or under the bed, instead of putting it up where it belongs?

But as soon as the crop will let him, the man goes in with his sickle, for the harvest time has come.

He said nothing to them except in figures, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

So they left the crowd and took him away in the boat in which he was sitting. There were other boats with him.

And a heavy squall of wind came on and the waves dashed into the boat, so that it was beginning to fill.

As soon as he got out of the boat, a man possessed by a foul spirit came out of the burial places near by to meet him.

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him.

And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him as he stood on the shore.

and had had a great deal of treatment from various doctors and had spent all that she had and had not been benefited at all but had actually grown worse,

But he still looked around to see the person who had done it.

But Jesus paid no attention to what they said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid, just have faith."

He let no one go with him but Peter, James, and James's brother John.

And they laughed at him. But he drove them all out, and took the child's father and mother and the men who were with him and went into the room where the child was lying.

He could not do any wonder there, except that he put his hands on a few sick people and cured them.

But others said he was Elijah, and still others that he was a prophet of the old prophetic kind.

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

Herodias felt bitterly toward him and wanted him killed. But she could not bring it about,

When she had left the room she said to her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" But she said, "The head of John the baptizer."

The king was exceedingly sorry, but on account of his oath and his guests he did not like to break his word to her,

When his disciples heard of it they came and took his body away and put it in a tomb.

So they set off by themselves in their boat for a secluded place.

So when he got out of the boat, he found a great crowd gathered, and his heart was touched at the sight of them, because they were like sheep that have no shepherd; and he proceeded to teach them a great deal.

But he answered, "Give them food yourselves." They said to him, "Can we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

But he said to them, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." They looked, and told him. "Five, and two fish."

He immediately had his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he was dismissing the crowd.

When evening came on, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on shore.

for they all saw him and were terrified. But he immediately spoke to them and said, "Take courage, it is I. Do not be afraid."

Then he went up to them and got into the boat. And the wind fell. And they were perfectly beside themselves,

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their minds were blinded.

They crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret and moored the boat.

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,

since it does not go into his heart but into his stomach and then is disposed of?" So he declared all food clean.

but a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit immediately heard about him and came and threw herself at his feet.

But she answered, "True, sir! and still the dogs under the table eat what the children leave!"

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

He took him off by himself away from the crowd, and put his fingers in the man's ears, and touched his tongue with saliva.

And Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide.

Then he immediately got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

And he left them and got into the boat again and crossed to the other side.

Now they had forgotten to bring any bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men."

Then Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

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

And they did not forget what he said, but discussed with one another what he meant by the rising from the dead.

Why, I tell you, not only has Elijah come, but people have treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

He answered them and said, "O you unbelieving people, how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

"From his childhood, and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to put an end to him. But if there is anything you can do, take pity on us and help us!"

But Jesus grasped his hand and made him rise, and he stood up.

But they did not understand what he meant, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

But they made no answer, for on the way they had been discussing with one another which of them was the greatest.

And he took a child and made him stand among them, and he put his arms around him, and said to them,

"Whoever welcomes one child like this on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but him who has sent me."

But Jesus said, "Do not tell him not to do so, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty act, and be able soon after to abuse me.

If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.

And if your foot makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life crippled, than be thrown with both your feet into the pit.

And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit,

where the worm that feeds upon them never dies and the fire is never put out.

Salt is a good thing, but if salt loses its strength, what will you use to season it? You must have salt within you, and live in peace with one another."

But he answered, "What has Moses commanded you to do?"

But Jesus said to them, "It was on account of your perversity that he laid down that law for you.

But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.

and so they are no longer two but one.

And people brought children to him to have him touch them, but the disciples reproved them for it.

But Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God himself.

But he said to him, "Master, I have obeyed all these commandments ever since I was a child."

But his face fell at Jesus' words, and he went away much cast down, for he had a great deal of property.

But the disciples were amazed at what he said. And Jesus said to them again, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God, for anything is possible for God."

but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.

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