As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.

He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"

At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.

He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.

Simon and those who were with him followed after him;

"Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry -- he, and those who were with him?

How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.

He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."

He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house.

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

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

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

He looked around to see her who had done this thing.

They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.

But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead."

Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.

and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.

Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ."

He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."

One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;

Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."

But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

But many who are first will be last; and the last first."

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?"

Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"

There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?

Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me -- he who eats with me."

He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."

Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely."

But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them."

But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."

But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man of whom you speak!"

Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.

Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him insulted him.

Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."

When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;