As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "See! I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way.

Now John was dressed in camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

I baptized you with water, but it is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

He was in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by Satan. He was among wild animals, and angels were ministering to him.

But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day."

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."

I tell all of you with certainty, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter.

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

He went on to say to them, "Pay attention to what you're hearing! You will be evaluated by the same standard with which you do your evaluating, and still more will be given to you,

because whoever has something, will have more given to him. But whoever has nothing, even what he has will be taken away."

because she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get well."

If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Then he told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power."

He sighed deeply in his spirit and remarked, "Why do those living today demand a sign? I tell all of you with certainty, no sign will be given to this generation."

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father's glory."

He told them, "Elijah is indeed coming first and will restore all things. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be treated shamefully?

because he was teaching his disciples, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. They will kill him, but after being dead for three days he will be raised."

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to the Messiah will never lose his reward."

Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

That's why "a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

and the two will become one flesh.' So they're no longer two, but one flesh.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. Then he told him, "You're missing one thing. Go and sell everything you own, give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

Then Jesus looked around and told his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!"

who will not receive a hundred times as much here in this world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, along with persecution as well as eternal life in the age to come.

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

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

and told them, "Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you go into it, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever ridden. Untie it, and bring it along.

If anyone asks you, "Why are you doing this?,' say, "The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back here at once."

I tell all of you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

That is why I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

"Whenever you stand up to pray, forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.

But if you do not forgive, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins."

He still had one more person to send, a son whom he loved. Finally, he sent him to them, saying, "They will respect my son.'

But those farmers told one another, "This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

"Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, execute the farmers, and give the vineyard to others.

In the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since all seven had married her?"

They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!"

"Do you see these large buildings?" Jesus responded. "Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down."

"Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign when these things will be put into effect?"

Many will come in my name and say, "I AM,' and they will deceive many people.

because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes and famines in various places. These things are only the beginning of the birth pains."

"As for yourselves, be on your guard! People will hand you over to local councils, and you will be beaten in their synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings to testify to them because of me.

When they take you away and hand you over for trial, don't worry ahead of time about what you will say. Instead, say whatever is given to you at that time, because it won't be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

because false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce signs and omens to deceive, if possible, the elect.

"But after the suffering of those days, "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.'

Then people will see "the Son of Man coming in clouds' with great power and glory.

In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you will know that the Son of Man is near, right at the door.

I tell all of you with certainty, this generation will not disappear until all these things take place.

Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear."

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

Be careful! Watch out! Because you don't know when the time will come.

I tell all of you with certainty, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her."

He sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jug of water. Follow him.

Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished and ready. Get everything ready for us there."

For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

Then Jesus told them, "All of you will turn against me, because it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"

Jesus said, "I AM, and "you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power' and "coming with the clouds of heaven.'"

Just then a rooster crowed a second time. Peter remembered that Jesus told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." Then he broke down and cried.

They kept saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

But go and tell his disciples especially Peter that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever doesn't believe will be condemned.

These are the signs that will accompany those who believe: In my name they'll drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages,