"The time is now come," he said, "and the kingdom of God is near! Repent and believe the gospel."

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

Then Jesus, when he perceived their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son your sins are forgiven."

Jesus clearly perceived at once be the Spirit that they were thus reasoning in their hearts and said to them.

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."

As he was passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax-office; and he said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and followed him.

But when some scribes of the Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax-gatherers, they said to his disciples, "Is he eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

On hearing this Jesus said to them. "It is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

"Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"

"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.

When his relatives heard of it, they came to take possession of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

The Scribes also who had come down from Jerusalem, said, "He is Beelzebub," and, "He casts out demons by the power of the Prince of the demons."

So when he had called them to him he spoke to them in parables. "How," said he, "can Satan cast out Satan?

Then he began teaching them in parables many things. In his teaching he said to them.

"You do not understand this parable," said Jesus. "Then how will you understand the other parables?

And he said to them. "Take heed what you hear. With what measure you measure it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you.

"To what shall we compare the kingdom of God?" he said again. "in what parable shall we set it forth?

On the evening of that same day Jesus said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."

And he awoke, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!"

The wind fell, and there ensued a great calm. Then he said to them. "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?"

Then they were awestruck, and said one to another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey him!"

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

"My little daughter," he said, "is dying. I beseech you, come and lay your hands on her, that she may recover and live."

Jesus, instantly conscious that the power within him had gone forth, turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

"You see the crowd thronging about you," said his disciples, "and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'"

"Daughter," he said, "your faith has saved you. Go in peace, and be cured of your complaint."

But Jesus, paying no attention to the remark, said to the warden of the synagogue, "Have no fear, only believe."

Then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha, cumi," that is to say, "Little girl, I am speaking to you; arise!"

So they disapproved of him. Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native land and among his relatives and in his home."

"He is Elijah," said others. And still others were saying, "He is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

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

at which the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced. She charmed Herod and his guests. "Ask me whatever you want," said the king to the young girl, "and I will give it to you."

So she came out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she replied.

So she at once hurried in to the king and made her request, "I want you," she said, "to give me, without delay, the head of John the Baptist on a charger."

Then he said to them, "Come apart, yourselves, to a quiet spot, and rest a while." For there were many coming and going, and they could not get time even to eat.

Then when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him and said: "This place is desert, and the day is now far spent.

In answer he said to them, "You yourselves are to give them food." "Are we to go and buy fifty dollars worth of bread," they said, "and give them food?"

"How many loaves have you?" he answered. "Go and see." When they had found out, they said, "Five, and two fishes."

For although Moses said, Honor your father and mother, and Let him who curses father or mother suffer death,

Then again he called the crowd to him and said:

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

"Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

then looking up to heaven with a sigh, he said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened.")

In those days when a large crowd had again assembled and had nothing to eat, Jesus called together his disciples and said to them.

He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" "Seven," they said.

At this Jesus sighed deeply in his spirit, and said: "Why does the present generation seek a sign? In solemn truth I tell you that no sign shall be given this generation."

And they began arguing with one another because they had no bread, He noted this and said to them.

Do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces did you take up?" "Twelve," they said.

"Do you not yet understand?" he said.

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

And he continued questioning them, "But you yourselves, Who do you say I am?" Peter in reply said to him, "You are Christ."

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.

"In solemn truth I tell you," he said, "there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God, come with power."

"Master," said Peter, addressing Jesus, "it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

"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?

Jesus said to him. "'If you can'! All things can be for one who believes."

The boy's father with a cry said instantly. "I do believe; help my unbelief."

And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit. "You dumb and deaf spirit," he said, "come out of him, I command you, and never enter him again."

So with a loud shriek it came out, after throwing the boy into convulsion after convulsion. The boy looked like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

So he sat down and called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and the servant of all."

Then Jesus took a little child, set it among them, and folding it in his arms, he said,

"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."

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

But Jesus said to them. "Moses gave you that command because of the hardness of your hearts;

When indoors the disciples began to question Jesus again about this, and he said:

Jesus was indignant when he saw it, and said: "Let the little children come to me. Do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such.

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

Jesus loved him as he looked at him, and said: "One thing you lack. Go, sell all you have and give to the poor; and you shall have wealth in heaven; and come, follow me."

Then Jesus looked round on his disciples and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"

The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus looked around and said again to them.

"Then who can be saved?" they said to themselves astonished beyond measure.

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,

Presently there came up to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and said, "Teacher, we wish you would do for us whatever we ask you."

"What is it you want me to do for you?" said he.

"You know not what you are asking," said Jesus. "Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

When they heard this the ten began to be indignant at James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said:

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

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

"Go," said Jesus, "your own faith has saved you," and immediately he received his sight, and began to follow Jesus along the road.

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

"Is it not written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers."

"Take hold on God's faithfulness," said Jesus to them in reply.

So their answer to Jesus was, "We do not know." "Neither will I tell you," said Jesus, "by what authority I do these things."

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.

"But those tenants said to themselves. 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

What will the owner of the Vineyard do?" "He will come and put the tenants to death," they said, "and will give the vineyard to others."

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?

Shall we pay, or not pay?" But he, knowing well their hypocrisy, said to them. "Why are you testing me? Bring me a dollar for me to look at."

And Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God, the things that are God's." They were amazed at him.

"Admirably said, O Teacher," exclaimed the Scribe. "You have truthfully said that He is one,

Jesus saw that he had answered with discrimination, and said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that no one ventured to question him.

David himself said in the Holy Spirit, "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand until I make thy foes the footstool of thy feet.'

and in his teaching he said: "Look out for the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and to receive salutations in the street, and to have prominent places in the synagogues,

On this he called his disciples to him, and said: "I tell you solemnly that this poor widow has put in more than all who have put their offerings into the treasury;

As Jesus was walking out of the Temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and buildings these are!"

but, "Not on a feast-day," they said, "for fear there should be a riot among the people."