He cured many who were ill with various diseases, and drove out many demons. But he did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who he was.

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."

He answered them. "Have you never read what David did when he was needy and hungry, he and his men?

While he was still speaking men came from the house of the warden of the synagogue to tell him, "Your daughter is dead, why trouble the Teacher any further?"

"The child is not dead, but asleep." And they began to laugh him to scorn. Then he put them all outside, took the father and mother of the child and those he brought with him, and entered the room where the child was lying.

When it came Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; many, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked; "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, and miracles such as these that happen at his hands?

King Herod heard it, for the name of Jesus had become well known, People were saying, "John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and on that account these powers are working in him."

"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites," he answered. "As it is written, 'This people honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far from me;

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.

"And when the seven for the four thousand, how many hampers full of fragments did you pick up?"

(For he did not know what to say, they were so awestruck.)

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.

This order they faithfully kept, questioning among themselves what "rising again from the dead" meant.

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.

But they did not understand his words, and were afraid to ask him the meaning.

"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."

"What did Moses command you?" he replied,

Then they began arguing with one another. "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why then did you not believe him?"

When they rise from the dead men do not marry, and women are not given in marriage, but they are as the angels are in heaven.

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are in grave error."

Jesus said to him, "I tell you in solemn truth that you yourself, today on this very night, before the cock crow twice, shall three times disown me."

Day after day I was face to face with you in the Temple courts, teaching, and you did not seize me. But this is done that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."

for though many gave false witness against him, their testimony did not agree.

But even their evidence did not agree.

"Did you hear his blasphemy? What is your verdict?"

They kept striking him on the head with a rod, and spitting upon him; and on bended knee they did him homage.

But Pilate wondered whether he were already dead. So he summoned the army captain, and inquired if he had been any time dead;

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

They too went, and told the others; but they did not believe them, either.