John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

He announced, "After me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to stoop and untie the string of his sandals:

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

and in the desert he remained for forty days, while Satan tempted him; he was in the company of wild beasts, but angels ministered to him.

so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."

A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them; then they will fast, on that day.

no one pours fresh wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins, and both wine and wineskins are ruined."

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

Also he said to them, "Take care what you hear; the measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to yourselves, and you will receive extra.

but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow."

"if I can touch even his clothes," she said to herself, "I will recover."

And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them."

The daughter of Herodias went in and danced to them, and Herod and his guests were so delighted that the king said to the girl, "Ask anything you like and I will give you it."

He swore to her, "I will give you whatever you want, were it the half of my realm."

If I send them home without food they will faint on the road. Besides, some of them have come a long way."

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

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this disloyal and sinful generation, the Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

I tell you truly," he said, to them, "there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the coming of God's Reign with power."

Jesus said, "Do not stop him; no one who performs any miracle in my name will be ready to speak evil of me.

I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first."

"We are going up to Jerusalem," he said, "and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles,

who will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him; then after three days he will rise again."

saying to them, "Go to the village in front of you. As soon as you enter it you will find a colt tethered, on which no one has ever sat; untether it and bring it here.

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back immediately."

I tell you truly, whoever says to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' and has not a doubt in his mind but believes that what he says will happen, he will have it done.

Jesus said to them, "I am going to ask you a question. Answer this, and I will tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.

Now they argued to themselves, "[What are we to say?] If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why did you not believe him.'

So they replied to Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do."

He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

But these vinedressers said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our own.'

Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and he will give the vineyard to others.

At the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

"Tell us, when is this to happen? What will be the sign for all this to be accomplished?"

So Jesus began: "Take care that no one misleads you: ??6 many will come in my name saying, 'I am he,' and mislead many.

For nation will rise against nation, and realm against realm; there will be earthquakes here and there, and famines too. All that is but the beginning of the trouble.

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and kill them,

and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now ??no and never shall be.

for false Christs and false prophets will rise and perform signs and wonders to mislead the elect if they can.

But when that misery is past, in those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not yield her light,

the stars will drop from heaven, and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.

Then they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

Then he will despatch his angels and muster the elect from the four winds, from the verge of earth to the verge of heaven.

I tell you truly, the present generation will not pass away till all this happens.

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

Watch then, for you never know when the Lord of the House will come, in the late evening or at midnight or at cock-crow or in the morning.

The poor you always have beside you, and you can be kind to them whenever you want; but you will not always have me.

I tell you truly, wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

So he despatched two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a water-jar; follow him,

He will show you a large room upstairs, with couches spread, all ready; prepare the passover for us there."

truly I tell you, I will never drink the produce of the vine again till the day I drink it new within the Realm of God."

Jesus said to them, "You will all be disconcerted, for it is written: I will strike at the shepherd, and, the sheep will be scattered.

But after my rising I will precede you to Galilee."

Peter said to him, "Though all are disconcerted, I will not be."

Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, to-day you will disown me three times, this very night, before the cock crows twice."

But he persisted, "Though I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And they all said the same.

"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

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

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

At that moment the cock crowed for the second time. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had told him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me thrice;" and he burst into tears.

Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

They said to themselves, "Who will roll away the boulder for us at the opening of the tomb?" (for it was a very large boulder).

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who will not believe shall be condemned.

And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,

they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."