It was even written in Isaiah, the prophet [Note: Verse

John was there baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

People from the whole Judean countryside and all of Jerusalem were going out to him, and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a beast's skin about his loins. And he did eat locusts and wild honey,

And he was preaching, saying, "One [who is] more powerful than I is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to bend down [and] untie the strap of his sandals.

And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth, a city of Galilee, and was baptised of John in Jordan.

And as soon as he was come out of the water, John saw the heavens open, and the holy ghost descending upon him like a dove.

And there was a voice from the heavens: Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

And immediately the Spirit leadeth him out into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days,

and he was there in the wilderness forty days, and was tempted of Satan, and was with wild beasts. And the angels ministered unto him.

After that John was taken, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

And [as he] was passing by along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting [a net] into the sea (for they were fishermen).

And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbaths, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

And there was in their synagogue, a man vexed with an unclean spirit, and that cried

and every one was amazed so that they began questioning among themselves. "What does this mean? A new teaching with authority? He lays commands even upon unclean spirits and they obey him."

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying down, suffering with a fever, and at once they told him about her.

and having come near, he raised her up, having laid hold of her hand, and the fever left her immediately, and she was ministering to them.

And at even, when the sun was down, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils,

And the whole town was gathered together at the door.

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.

And getting up early in the morning [while it was] very dark, he departed and went to a deserted place, and there he was praying.

He was praying there when Simon and his companions hunted him out

But Jesus said to them: "Let us go somewhere else, into the country towns near, that I may make my proclamation in them also; for that was why I came."

And he was preaching in their synagogues in the whole of Galilee, and casting out demons.

And His heart was moved with pity for him, so He stretched out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do want to! Be cured!"

And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

But he, as soon as he was departed, began to tell many things and to publish the deed, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places, and they came to him from every quarter.

After a few days he entered into Capernaum again, and it was noised that he was in a house:

And anon many gathered together, insomuch that now there was no room to receive them: no, not so much as about the door. And he preached the word unto them.

While he was speaking his message, they came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four men.

and because they could not come nigh unto him for press, they uncovered the roof of the house where he was. And when they had broken it open, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

Then he got up and at once picked up his pallet, and went out before them all. The result was that they were all dumbfounded and began to praise God and say, "We have never seen anything like this before."

And he went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he began to teach them.

And [as he] was passing by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me!" And he stood up [and] followed him.

And it happened that he {was dining} in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners {were dining with} Jesus and his disciples, for there were many and they were following him.

And the scribes of the Pharisees, [when they] saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, began to say to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

It was customary for the Pharisees, and the disciples of John, to fast; they came therefore and ask'd him, why do John's disciples, and the Pharisees fast so frequently, and not your disciples?

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk (new) cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make [their] way [while] plucking off the heads of grain.

And he said to them, "Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was a hungered both he and they that were with him?

howhe entered into the house of God, while Abiathar was High-priest, and, the presence-bread, did eat, - which it is not allowed to eat, save unto the priests, - and gave, unto them also who were with him?

And he said to them, "The Sabbath day was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath day.

And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there which had a withered hand:

And He said to the man whose hand was deformed, "Step forward."

And he looked round about on them, angrily mourning on the blindness of their hearts. And said to the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out: And his hand was restored, even as whole as the other.

and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him [because they] heard all that he was doing.

So he told his disciples to have a small boat ready; it was to prevent him being crushed by the crowd,

and the impure spirits, as soon as they beheld him, were falling down to him, and crying aloud, while he was speaking, Thou, art the Son of God!

and sternly was he rebuking them, lest they should make him manifest.

And he went up into the mountain, and sent for those whom it was his pleasure to have with him: and they went to him.

There was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,

And Judas Iscariot, who was false to him.

And again the crowds gathered so that it was not possible for them even to take their meals.

and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

And he called them to himself [and] was speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan expel Satan?

And, if Satan did arise against himself, and was divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.

This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him.

And a crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers [are] outside looking for you."

"Who is my mother? and my brothers?" was his reply.

And he began again to teach by the seaside. And there gathered together unto him much people, so greatly that he entered in to a ship, and sat in the sea, and all the people was by the seaside on the shore:

And he began to teach them many [things] in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching,

And it happened that while [he] was sowing, {some seed} fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Others fell on stony ground, where they didn't have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once, because the soil wasn't deep.

but as soon as the sun was up, it caught heat: and because it had not rooting it withered away.

And, other, fell into the good ground, and was yielding fruit, coming up and growing, - and was bearing, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold,

And he was saying - He that hath ears to hear, let him hear!

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked him of the similitude.

and he was saying unto them - To you, the sacred secret hath been given of the kingdom of God, whereas, to them who are outside, in parables are all things coming to pass, - that

And they that are by the wayside, where the word is sown, are they to whom as soon as they have heard it, cometh immediately Satan and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

And he was saying unto them - Doth the lamp come that under the measure it should be put, or under the couch? Is it not that upon the lampstand it may be put?

for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.

And he was saying unto them - Be taking heed what ye are hearing: - with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you, and added unto you;

And he was saying - Thus, is the kingdom of God: As a man may cast seed upon the earth,

And he was saying - How shall we liken the kingdom of God, or, in what parable, shall we put it?

And with many parables such as these he was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear [it].

but, without a parable, was he not speaking unto them, - privately, however, unto his own disciples, was he explaining all things.

And the same day, when even was come, he said unto them, "Let us pass over unto the other side."

And they left the people, and took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other ships.

And there arose a great storm of wind, and dashed the waves into the ship, so that it was full.

And he was in the stern asleep on a pillow. And they awoke him, and said to him, "Master, carest thou not that we perish?"

And he woke up [and] rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Be quiet! Be silent!" And the wind abated and there was a great calm.

And their fear was great, and they said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea do his orders?

And when he was come out of the ship, anon there met him out of the graves a man possessed of an unclean spirit,

who {lived} among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him any longer, not even with a chain,

because that when he was often bound with fetters and chains, he plucked the chains asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces: Neither could any man tame him.

And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

(For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, unclean spirit!")

And he was asking him "{What is your name}?" And he said to him, "My name [is] Legion, because we are many."

And he was imploring him many [times] that he would not send them out of the region.

And there was there, nigh unto the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding,

And their herdsmen fled and reported [it] in the town and in the countryside, and they came to see what it was that had happened.

And they came out to Jesus, and they saw him that was vexed with the fiend, and had the legion, sit: both clothed and in his right mind; and were afraid.

And they that saw it told them, how it had happened unto him that was possessed with the devil: and also of the swine.

And when he was come into the ship, he that had the devil prayed him that he might be with him.