"The voice of one crying aloud: 'In the Desert prepare a road for the Lord: Make His highways straight.'"

Then right after that the Holy Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert.

Then they went into Capernaum, and right away He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and began to teach.

When Jesus saw their [active] faith [springing from confidence in Him], He said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Right away Jesus understood in His spirit that they were thinking like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has the authority and power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralyzed man,

And it happened that Jesus was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, and many tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews] were eating with Him and His disciples; for there were many of them and they were following Him.

When Jesus heard [about] this, He said to them, "People who are healthy do not need a doctor, but [only] sick people do. I did not come to call those who do right, but sinners [instead]."

And he was walking through the cornfields on the sabbath; and his disciples as they went on the road plucked the ears of corn.

And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?

And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

He asked them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

and to have the right to drive out the demons.

But no one can go into a strong man’s house and steal his property unless he first overpowers and ties up the strong man, and then he will ransack and rob his house.

and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it sprang up right away, since it didn’t have deep soil.

But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

And these are they likewise who have received the seed on stony ground, who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy: But have not root in themselves, and so indure but for a time:

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

As for those who were sown 'on good soil,' these are the people who listen to the word and take it in and bear fruit at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

But when the crop permits, he sends [in] the sickle right away, because the harvest has come."

And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

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

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful [under Mosaic Law] for you to have your brother’s wife.”

And she rushed back to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter!”

He saw that his disciples were straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea. He intended to go up right beside them,

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

You are in the right, said he, to abolish the laws of God, to make way for such traditions.

Because it does not pass into his heart, but into his stomach, and is afterwards got rid of?--in saying this Jesus pronounced all food 'clean.'

But Jesus said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

And they bring to him a deaf man who could not speak right, and they beseech him that he might lay his hand on him.

And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.

And they were utterly amazed, saying, "He has done everything just right; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."

If I send them away to their homes hungry, they will faint [from exhaustion] on the road; because some of them have come a long way.”

Jesus went out with His disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

They arrived at Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He asked them, “What were you discussing and arguing about on the road?”

But they kept quiet, because on the road they had discussed and debated with one another which one [of them] was the greatest.

And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

And, as he was going forth into a road, one, running, and kneeling before him, was questioning him - Good Teacher! what shall I do that, life age - abiding, I may inherit?

miles northeast of Jerusalem]. As He left there with His disciples and a large crowd, they met a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sitting along side the road.

Looking at him, Jesus felt a love (high regard, compassion) for him, and He said to him, “You lack one thing: go and sell all your property and give [the money] to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”

Peter started saying to Him, “Look, we have given up everything and followed You [becoming Your disciples and accepting You as Teacher and Lord].”

Now they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on ahead of them. And they were astounded, but those who were following [him] were afraid. And taking aside the twelve again, he began to tell them the things that were about to happen to him:

They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

and they said, we can. but Jesus replied, you shall indeed drink of the cup, that I must drink of, and be baptized with the baptism, with which I must be baptized; but to sit on my right hand,

But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.

And they came to Jericho. And [as] he was setting out from Jericho along with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.

Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith [and confident trust in My power] has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and began following Jesus on the road.

and said to them, "Go into the village before you, and right away [as you] enter into it you will find a colt tied, on which no one [has] ever sat. Untie it and bring [it].

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here right away.’”

Then they departed, and found the colt tied at the door without at the crossing of the road; and they are loosing him.

And they brought the colt to Jesus, and put on him their garments; and he rode upon it.

And many [of the people] spread their coats on the road [as an act of tribute and homage before a new king], and others [scattered a layer of] leafy branches which they had cut from the fields [honoring Him as Messiah].

Now as they passed in the morning they noticed the fig tree had withered to the root.

and said to him, "What authority have you for doing as you do? And who gave you a right to do as you are doing?"

At the right time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.

And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

They came and said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and have no personal bias toward anyone; for You are not influenced by outward appearances or social status, but in truth You teach the way of God. Is it lawful [according to Jewish law and tradition] to pay the poll-tax to [Tiberius] Caesar, or not?

Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to the truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;

For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be (let this be clear to the reader), then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains:

In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you will know that the Son of Man is near, right at the door.

but they were saying, “Not during the festival, for the people might riot.”

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

Be wakeful, all of you, and keep on praying, that you may not come into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

Right away, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him came a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and experts in the law and elders.

So when he came, he went right up to Him and said, “Rabbi!”—and kissed Him.

Peter had followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers [guards and servants] and warming himself at the fire.

And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

His words against God have come to your ears: what is your opinion? And they all said it was right for him to be put to death.

A man called Barabbas was in prison, with the rioters who had committed murder during a riot.

They placed a purple robe on Him [Note: Matt. 27:28 calls this a "scarlet" robe. In that day, any color with a mixture of "red" in it was often called "purple"], and making a wreath out of thorns, they placed it on His head.

And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.

The written notice of the charge against him read, "The king of the Jews."

And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.

And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.

So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.