And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.

And this was his message: "After me there is coming one stronger than I am, one whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

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.

Just then there was in their synagogue a man under the control of a foul spirit, and he cried out,

Early in the morning, long before daylight, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely spot, and prayed there.

There came to him a leper appealing to him on his knees, saying to him, "If you only choose, you can cure me."

and such a crowd gathered that after a while there was no room even around the door, and he was telling them his message.

There were some scribes sitting there pondering and saying to themselves,

He was at table in his house, with many tax-collectors and irreligious people who were at table with him and his disciples, for there were many of them among his followers.

He went again to a synagogue, and there was a man there with one hand withered.

And again the crowd gathered in such numbers that there was no chance for them even to have their meals.

There was a crowd sitting around him when they told him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,

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

Then he awoke and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Silence!" And the wind went down and there was a great calm.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters; and there was no one strong enough to master him,

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us."

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

They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, and there he found everything in confusion, and people weeping and wailing.

Leaving there he went, followed by his disciples, to his own part of the country.

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

There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.

There were about four thousand of the people. And he dismissed them.

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

"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!"

Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!"

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.

And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,

and said to them, "Go to the village that lies in front of you, and as soon as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question.

There were once seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died, leaving no child.

For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.

The scribe said to him, "Really, Master, you have finely said that he stands alone, and there is none but he,

For nation will rise in arms against nation and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes here and there, there will be famines. This is only the beginning of the sufferings.

for there will be such misery in those days as there has never been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again.

If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! Here is the Christ!' or 'Look! There he is!' do not believe it.

for they said, "It must not be during the festival, or there may be a riot."

But there were some who said indignantly to themselves, "What was the use of wasting the perfume like that?

And he will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make your preparations for us there."

And the maid saw him there and began again to tell the bystanders, "This fellow is one of them!"

There was in prison a man called Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their outbreak had committed murder.

There were some women also watching from a distance, among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joses, and Salome,

But go and say to his disciples and to Peter, 'He is going before you to Galilee; you will see him there, just as he told you.' "