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

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

In the evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed by demons,

And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

And some people came bringing to him a man who was paralyzed, four of them carrying him.

"Why does this man talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

He was at table in his house, with many tax-collectors and irreligious people who were at table with him and his disciples, for there were many of them among his followers.

And when the scribes who were of the Pharisees' party saw that he was eating with irreligious people and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

For he cured so many people that all who had any ailments pressed up to him to touch him.

And he warned them repeatedly not to tell who he was.

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

He appointed twelve of them, whom he called apostles, to be with him and to be sent out to preach,

and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home.

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.

He answered, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

And he said, "Let him who has ears be sure to listen!"

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

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

And the ones sown in good ground are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold.

For people who have will have more given them, and from people who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

And they were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For even the wind and the sea obey him."

And the men who tended them ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around, and the people came to see what had happened.

When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.

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

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him.

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

Jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him, and he turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?' "

But he still looked around to see the person who had done it.

And they laughed at him. But he drove them all out, and took the child's father and mother and the men who were with him and went into the room where the child was lying.

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.

And whatever village or town or farm he went to, they would lay their sick in the market-place and beg him to let them touch just the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched it were cured.

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.

Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

And he said to them, "I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the reign of God come in its might."

Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!"

"Whoever welcomes one child like this on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but him who has sent me."

But Jesus said, "Do not tell him not to do so, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty act, and be able soon after to abuse me.

For the man who is not against us is for us.

And he said to them, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his former wife,

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!"

They were perfectly astounded and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"

Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,

But many who are first now will be last then, and the last will be first."

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,

and said to him, "What authority have you for doing as you do? And who gave you a right to do as you are doing?"

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question.

And in the course of his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and to be saluted with respect in public places,

And he called his disciples to him and said, "I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all these others who have been putting money into the treasury.

You will be hated by everyone, because you bear my name. But he who holds out to the end will be saved.

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;

Alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies!

But there were some who said indignantly to themselves, "What was the use of wasting the perfume like that?

And when they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell you, one of you is going to betray me??ne who is eating with me."

He said to them, "It is one of the Twelve, who is dipping his bread in the same dish with me.

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

Just at that moment, while he was still speaking, Judas, who was one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a crowd of men with swords and clubs, from the high priests, scribes, and elders.

Now the man who betrayed him had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Seize him and take him safely away."

Now at festival time he used to set free for them one prisoner, whom they petitioned for.

There was in prison a man called Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their outbreak had committed murder.

And they forced a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross??ne Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! you who would tear down the sanctuary and build one in three days!

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

And when the captain who stood facing him saw how he expired he said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

who used to accompany him and wait on him when he was in Galilee??esides many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly respected member of the council, who was himself living in expectation of the reign of God, made bold to go to Pilate and ask for Jesus' body.

And they said to one another, "Who will roll the stone back from the doorway of the tomb for us?"

But he said to them, "You must not be amazed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here. See! This is where they laid him.

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.

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.

He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.

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