As it is written in the prophet Isaiah: "Here I send my messenger ahead of you; He will prepare your way.

Now John wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he used to live on dried locusts and wild honey.

I have baptized you in water, but He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

And He stayed in the desert forty days, while He was being tempted by Satan; yea, He was with the wild beasts, but the angels continued to wait upon Him.

So Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

But a time is coming when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

No one puts new wine into old wine-bottles, or, if he does, the wine will break the bottles, and the wine is lost, and the bottles too. New wine is to be put up in new bottles."

I solemnly say to you, men will be forgiven for all their sins and all the abusive things they say.

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

And He was saying to them: "Take care what you hear. The measure you give will come back to you, and more besides.

For whoever has will have more given to him, but whoever has nothing, even what he has will be taken away."

But as soon as the crop Will permit it, he puts in the sickle, for the reaping time has come."

but when it is properly sown, it comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under its shade."

Herodias' daughter came in and danced for them, and fascinated Herod and his guests. So the king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I will give it to you."

And he promised her on oath, "I will give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom."

and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans.

And if I send them home hungry, they will give out on the road, for some of them are a long way from home."

But He sighed in spirit and said, "Why do the people of these times ask for a spectacular sign? I solemnly say, no sign at all will be given them."

For whoever wants to save his higher life, will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for me and for the good news, will save the higher life.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

For whoever is ashamed of me and my teaching in this unfaithful, sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when He comes back in His Father's splendor with the holy angels."

And He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, some of the people standing here will certainly live to see the kingdom of God come in its power."

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

for He was now teaching His disciples, and saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be turned over into men's hands, and they will kill Him, but three days after that He will rise again."

Jesus said, "Do not try to stop him, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty deed, and then be able soon to abuse me.

"For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I solemnly say to you, he will not fail to get his reward.

I solemnly say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God as a little child does, will never get into it at all."

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!"

who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.

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

"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and scribes, and they will sentence Him to death, and will turn Him over to the heathen,

and they will make sport of Him, and spit on Him, and flog Him, and kill Him, but three days after He will rise again."

They answered Him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "Yes, the cup that I am drinking you will have to drink, and the baptism of agony that I am enduring you will have to endure,

but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared."

and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and as soon as you get into it, you will find a colt tied which has never been ridden by a man. Untie it and bring it here.

And if anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' answer, 'The Lord needs it, and will soon send it back here.'"

I solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt at all in his heart, but has faith that what he says will take place, shall have it.

So then I tell you, whenever you pray and ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you will get it.

Jesus said to them, "Let me ask you just one question, and if you answer me, I will tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do.

Then they argued with one another in this way, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' He will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

He had one more to send, his dearly loved son; at last he sent him to them, for he said to himself, 'They will surely respect my son.'

But those tenants said among themselves, 'This is his heir; come on, let us kill him, and all that is coming to him will be ours.'

Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

Now at the resurrection, which one's wife will she be? For all seven of them married her."

men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers. They will get a much heavier sentence!"

Jesus said to him, "Are you looking in wonder at these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another that will not be torn down."

"When will all this take place? Tell us. And what will be the sign that it is about to be put into effect?"

Many will come bearing the name of Messiah, and saying, 'I am He,' and they will mislead many.

For one nation will go to war with another, and one kingdom with another. There will be earthquakes in many places; there will be famines. But this is only the beginning of the agonies.

So you must be on the lookout for yourselves; they will turn you over to courts, and to synagogues where you will be beaten, and you must appear before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Now when they take you to court for trial, do not be worrying beforehand about what you should say, but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you that will be speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents and have them put to death.

You will be hated by everybody, because you bear my name. But whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

for there will be such misery at that time as has never been since the beginning of God's creation, and never will be again.

For false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will do signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, even God's chosen people.

"But in those days, after that misery, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light,

the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers of the sky will be shaken.

And then they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds in overwhelming power and splendor.

Then He will send out His angels, and gather His chosen people from the four points of the compass, from one end of the sky to the other.

So when you see all these things taking place, you will know that He is right at the door.

I solemnly say to you, the present generation will not pass away before all this takes place.

Earth and sky will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Keep looking, keep alert, for you do not know when the time will be.

It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.

For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you please you can do them good, but you will not always have me.

I solemnly say to you, all over the world wherever this good news is proclaimed, the deed that she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

So He sent off two of His disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

Then he will show you a large upstairs room, furnished and ready; get everything ready for us there."

For the Son of Man is going away, as the Scriptures say of Him, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had never been born."

I solemnly say to you, I will never again drink the product of the vine till the day when I drink the new wine in the kingdom of God."

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

But after I am raised from the dead, I will go back to Galilee to meet you."

Then Peter said to Him, "Although all the rest of them stumble over you, yet I will never do so myself."

Then Jesus said to him, "I solemnly say to you, this very night, before the cock crows twice, you, yes, you, will disown me three times."

But Peter kept on emphatically saying, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And they all kept saying the same thing.

"We ourselves have heard Him say, 'I will tear down this temple built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.'"

Jesus said, "Yes, I am, and you will all see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming in the clouds of the sky!"

At that moment for the second time a Cock crowed. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And when he remembered that, he burst into tears.

And they kept saying to one another, "Who will roll the boulder back from the doorway of the tomb for us?"

But you go and tell His disciples and Peter, 'He is going back to Galilee to meet you; you will see Him there, just as He told you.'"

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

And the following signs will attend those who believe: By using my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign languages;

they will take snakes in their hands; even if they drink anything poisonous, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."