John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.

And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

And He did not let him, but He *said to him, “Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.”

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him.”

And He *said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.)

And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

“When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.”

For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.

As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead.

They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant.

But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written of him.”

After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!”

From there they went out and began to go through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know about it.

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

They began reasoning among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”

But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me.

And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him.

Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures.”

But He kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.

Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.

They went away and reported it to the others, but they did not believe them either.