Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,

And John was dressed in camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

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

And he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

And Jesus said to them, "{Follow} me and I will make you become fishers of people."

But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. {Otherwise} the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins [too]. But new wine [is put] into new wineskins."

And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

"Truly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme.

For whoever does the will of God, this person is my brother and sister and mother."

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?

For nothing is secret except so that it may be revealed, nor has become hidden except so that it will come to light.

And he said to them, "Take care what you hear! With the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you, and will be added to you.

For whoever has, [more] will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."

And he was imploring him many [times], saying, "My little daughter {is at the point of death}! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live."

for she was saying, "If I touch just his clothing, I will be healed!"

And [when] the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced and pleased Herod and {his dinner guests}, the king said to the girl, "Ask me [for] whatever you want, and I will give [it] to you."

And he swore to her, "Anything whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom!"

And if I send them away hungry to their homes they will give out on the way, and some of them have come from far away."

And sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!"

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me and of the gospel will save it.

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

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you, that there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the kingdom of God having come with power."

And he answered them [and] said, "O unbelieving generation! {How long} will I be with you? {How long} must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

for he was teaching his disciples and was telling them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And [when he] is killed, after three days he will rise."

And he sat down [and] called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all."

But Jesus said, "Do not prevent him, because there is no one who does a miracle in my name and will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in [my] name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you that he will never lose his reward.

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife,

and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."

And [as] he was setting out on [his] way, one [individual] ran up and knelt down before him [and] asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?"

And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one [thing]: Go, sell all that you have, and give [the proceeds] to the poor--and you will have treasure in heaven--and come, follow me."

{who will not} receive a hundred times as much now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.

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

"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles.

And they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill [him], and after three days he will rise."

And they said to him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup that I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with,

and said to them, "Go into the village before you, and right away [as you] enter into it you will find a colt tied, on which no one [has] ever sat. Untie it and bring [it].

And if anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say 'The Lord has need of it, and will send it here again at once.'"

And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

Truly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be [done] for him.

For this [reason] I say to you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received [it], and it will be [done] for you.

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive [him], so that your Father who [is] in heaven will also forgive you your sins."

So Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these [things].

And they began to discuss [this] with one another, saying, "What should we say? If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

And they replied to Jesus saying, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these [things]."

He had one more, a beloved son. Last [of all] he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

But those tenant farmers said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours!'

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.

In the resurrection, when they rise, {whose} wife will she be? For the seven had her [as] wife.

who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"

And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not [one] stone will be left here on [another] stone that will not be thrown down!"

"Tell us, when will these [things] happen, and what [will be] the sign when all these [things] are about to be accomplished?"

Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am [he],' and they will deceive many.

For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in [various] places. There will be famines. These [things] [are] the beginning of birth pains.

"But you, watch out for yourselves! They will hand you over to councils and you will be beaten in the synagogues and will have to stand before governors and kings because of me, for a witness to them.

And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

And you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end--this one will be saved.

But pray that it will not happen in winter.

For [in] those days there will be tribulation of such a kind as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will happen.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce signs and wonders in order to mislead, if possible, the elect.

"But in those days, after that tribulation, 'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light,

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.'

And then they will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds with great power and glory.

And then he will send out the angels, and will gather the elect together from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all these [things] take place!

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.

And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,

And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished [and] ready, and prepare for us there."

And [while] they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, that one of you who is eating with me will betray me."

Truly I say to you that I will never drink of the fruit of the vine any longer until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, because it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.'

But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee."

But Peter said to him, "Even if they all fall away, certainly I will not!"

And Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that today--this night--before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times!"

But he kept saying emphatically, "If it is necessary for me to die with you, I will never deny you!" And they all were saying the same [thing] also.

And he said, "Abba, Father, all [things] [are] possible for you! Take away this cup from me! Yet not what I will, but what you [will]."

Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"

"We heard him saying, 'I will destroy this temple made by hands, and within three days I will build another not made by hands."

And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

And immediately a rooster crowed for the second time. And Peter remembered the statement, how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times," and throwing himself down, he began to weep.

And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?"

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

The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who refuses to believe will be condemned.

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will expel demons, they will speak in new tongues,

they will pick up snakes. And if they drink any deadly [poison] it will never hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and {they will get} well."