Beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

and as soon as he rose from the water he saw the sky cleft asunder, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him,

and a voice from the sky. "Thou art my Son, my beloved; in thee is my delight."

As he went a little farther on he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in their boat mending the nets.

So they came to Capernaum, and as soon as the Sabbath Day came he went into the synagogue and began to teach.

At evening when the sun had set, people came and brought to him all the sick and demon-possessed,

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

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.

so the Son of man is Master even of the Sabbath."

As soon as they came out, the Pharisees plotted against him with the Herodians, in order to destroy him.

And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they threw themselves down at his feet, screaming out, "You are the Son of God."

and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot,

but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit is never forgiven. Nay, he is in the grasp of an eternal sin."

but when the sun rose it was scorched and withered away because it had no root.

"What the Sower sows is the Word. There are those 'on the wayside' where the Word is sown.

As soon as they hear it, Satan immediately comes and snatches away the Word which has been sown in them.

There are others who are 'sown among thorns.'

But those, on the other hand, who were sown on that good soil, are those who listen to the Word, and welcome it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold."

"It is with the kingdom of God," he continued, "as if a man should have sown seed in the earth;

Then as soon as the crop is ready the man has the sickle put in at once, because harvest-time is come.

It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the soil, is the smallest seed in the world;

yet when sown shoots up and becomes larger than any plant, sending out such branches that the wild birds build their nests under its shadow."

and with a shriek he cried out in a loud voice. "Jesus, son of God most high, what business have you with me? I adjure you by God, torment me not!"

Now there was on the hillside a great drove of swine feeding.

So the spirits begged him, saying, "Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them."

And he gave them leave. And out came the foul spirits and entered the swine; and the drove rushed down from the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand, and were choked in the sea.

And those who had been eye-witnesses told them what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine.

Then one of the wardens of the synagogue, named Jairus, came up, and as soon as he saw Jesus, fell at his feet, with many entreaties,

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?"

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people at once recognized him,

And the Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, by way of testing him.

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 he began to explain to them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests, and the Scribes, and be put to death, and after two days rise again.

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

Then there came a cloud overshadowing them; and there came a voice out of the cloud. "This is my Son, my beloved. Listen to him."

As they came down the mountain he strictly forbade them to narrate to any one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead.

"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?

As soon as they saw him, all the people were astounded and ran up to greet him.

"Master," answered one of the crowd, "I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit in him;

for he was explaining to his disciples that the Son of man was to be betrayed into the hands of men, and that they would put him to death, but that after he had been put to death, he would rise again after three days,

"Do not try to stop him," Jesus answered, "for there is no one who performs a miracle in my name who can soon speak evil of me.

"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,

and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.

Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began shouting and saying, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!"

and many kept rebuking him and telling him to be quiet, but he only shouted much louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

He had still one, a Son beloved, He sent him last to them, saying, "'They will reverence my Son.'

While he was teaching in the Temple courts, Jesus in his turn asked. "How is it that the Scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

"Tell us when these things shall be, and what shall be the sign that all these predictions are about to be fulfilled."

"But when the tribulation is past, in those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light,

Then will they see the Son of man coming in clouds, with great power and glory.

"From the fig tree learn now her parable; as soon as ever her branches are full of sap and bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near.

nor the Son, but only the Father.

For the Son of man is going his way, as the Scripture says, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for that man if he had never been born."

Then he came the third time, and said: "Sleep on now, and take your rest! It is over. My hour is come. Look! the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now the betrayer had given them a sign. "The one I kiss," he said, "is the man. Arrest him, and take him away safely."

But he remained silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned him. "Are you the Christ," he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

"I am," Jesus answered, "and you all shall see the Son of man seated on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

As soon as it was down, after the high priests had conferred with the elders and the whole Sanhedrin, they bound Jesus, and took him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

Then the army captain, who was standing facing Jesus when he thus died, said, "in truth this man was a Son of God."

And very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb as the sun was rising;

But they, although they heard that he was living and had been seen by her did not believe it.

Afterward he appeared to the Eleven themselves, as they were eating, and reproached them for their lack of faith, and stubborn hearts, because they disbelieved those who had seen him risen.