It was in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

And he went up the hillside and summoned to him those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

When he was by himself, those who stayed about him with the Twelve asked him about the figures he had used.

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

The ones by the path are those into whose hearts the message falls, and as soon as they hear it Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

It is different with those sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message,

And those who had seen it told them what had happened to the demoniac, and all about the pigs.

In those days when a great crowd had gathered again and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,

how many baskets of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for those five thousand men?" They said to him, "Twelve."

And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to enter the Kingdom of God!"

As they went on their way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walked ahead of them, and they were in dismay, and those who still followed were afraid. And he took the Twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

but as for sitting at my right or at my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined."

And Jesus called them to him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men tyrannize over them;

And those in front and those behind shouted, "God bless him! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!

When they reached Jerusalem, he went into the Temple, and began to drive out of it those who were buying or selling things in it, and he upset the money-changers' tables and the pigeon-dealers' seats,

But as soon as you see the dreadful desecration standing where he has no right to stand" (the reader must take note of this), "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

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 the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

But in those days, when that misery is over, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed its light

Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.

And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues;