He proclaimed, "One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

Simon's mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

The whole town gathered by the door.

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

When Jesus heard this he said to them, "Those who are healthy don't need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and, "By the ruler of demons he casts out demons."

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Be quiet! Calm down!" Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him.

Jesus gave them permission. So the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. Then the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake, and about two thousand were drowned in the lake.

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

But he looked around to see who had done it.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. Many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did he get these ideas? And what is this wisdom that has been given to him? What are these miracles that are done through his hands?

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

Then he directed them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."

He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

People were completely astounded and said, "He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."

Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So they served the crowd.

Though you have eyes, don't you see? And though you have ears, can't you hear? Don't you remember?

As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able to do so."

After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?"

Now when the other ten heard this, they became angry with James and John.

Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

I tell you the truth, if someone says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." Then Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."

Jesus said to them, "Aren't you deceived for this reason, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God?

Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.

Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!"

The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."

But he denied it: "I don't even understand what you're talking about!" Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.

Pilate asked them, "Why? What has he done wrong?" But they shouted more insistently, "Crucify him!"

Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

save yourself and come down from the cross!"

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!" Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Leave him alone! Let's see if Elijah will come to take him down!"

After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.