John's clothing was made of hair cloth, and the belt around his waist was leather, and he lived on dried locusts and wild honey.

And he remained in the desert for forty days, and Satan tried to tempt him there; and he was among the wild animals; but the angels waited on him.

And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat; or if he does, the patch tears away, the new from the old, and makes the hole worse than ever.

And no one pours new wine into old wine-skins; or if he does, the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins too. New wine has to be put into fresh skins."

And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.

And the ones sown in good ground are the people who listen to the message and welcome it and yield thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold.

yet once sown, comes up and grows to be the largest of all the plants, and produces branches so large that the wild birds can roost under the shelter of it."

And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

And the little girl immediately got up and walked about, for she was twelve years old. The moment they saw it they were utterly amazed.

But others said he was Elijah, and still others that he was a prophet of the old prophetic kind.

They saw him walking on the sea, and thought it was a ghost and screamed aloud,

And whatever village or town or farm he went to, they would lay their sick in the market-place and beg him to let them touch just the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched it were cured.

and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the Temple.

If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short.

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

At that moment for the second time a cock crowed. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will disown me three times!" And at that, he wept aloud.

They offered him drugged wine, but he would not take it.

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! you who would tear down the sanctuary and build one in three days!

She went and told it to his old companions, while they were mourning and weeping.

When they heard that he was alive and that she had seen him, they would not believe it.

They went back and told the rest, but they would not believe them.