As it is written in the prophet Isaiah: "Here I send my messenger ahead of you; He will prepare your way.

"Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

He left the neighborhood of Tyre and went by way of Sidon through the district of the Ten Cities down to the Sea of Galilee.

And if I send them home hungry, they will give out on the road, for some of them are a long way from home."

Then Jesus and His disciples left Galilee and went to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way there He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!"

Then they reached Capernaum. When He got home, He asked them, "What were you discussing on the way home?"

Then the high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they kept looking for some way to destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him, for everybody was swept off his feet at what He said.

Then they argued with one another in this way, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' He will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

And they came up and said to Him, "We know that you always tell the truth, and pay no personal consideration to anyone, but teach the way of God honestly. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

Now the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days later. So the high priests and scribes kept looking for some way to arrest Him by stratagem and have Him put to death,

And when the captain who stood facing him saw that He expired in this way, he said, "This man was surely God's Son!"

After this He showed Himself in a different form to two of them as they were walking along, on their way into the country.