He said, "The time is now! The kingdom of God is near! Repent, and keep believing the gospel!"

When evening came, after the sun had set, people started bringing to him everyone who was sick or possessed by demons.

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

He began teaching them many things in parables. While he was teaching them he said,

It's like a mustard seed planted in the ground. Although it's the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

That day, when evening had come, he told them, "Let's cross to the other side."

They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.

When Jesus again had crossed to the other side in a boat, a large crowd gathered around him by the seashore.

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

But when Jesus heard what they said, he told the synagogue leader, "Stop being afraid! Just keep on believing."

He told them repeatedly, "Whenever you go into a home, stay there until you leave that place.

But when Herod heard about it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised,"

because Herod was afraid of John. He knew that John was a righteous and holy man, and so he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he did much of what he said. In fact, he liked listening to him.

When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late.

Then he ordered them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

Because Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

Then he told her, "Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter."

He asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" "Seven," they said.

So he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to distribute. So they served them to the crowd.

They also had a few small fish. He blessed them and said that the fish should also be distributed.

Leaving them, he got into a boat again and crossed to the other side.

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw everything perfectly, even from a distance.

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

Then Peter told Jesus, "Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Then a cloud appeared and overshadowed them. A voice came out of the cloud and said, "This is my Son, whom I love. Keep on listening to him!"

Then Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.

The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

But Jesus said, "Don't stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name can slander me soon afterwards.

Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her."

Shocked at this statement, the man went away sad, because he had many possessions.

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans it's impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God."

Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the gospel

They asked him, "Let us sit in your glory, one on your right and one on your left."

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."

So Jesus stopped and said, "Call him!"

The disciples told them what Jesus had said, and the men let them go.

They brought the colt to Jesus, threw their coats on it, and he sat on it.

Remembering what Jesus had said, Peter pointed out to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has dried up!"

Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

As for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

Then the scribe told him, "Well said, Teacher! You have told the truth that "God is one, and there is no other besides him.'

David himself said by the Holy Spirit, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'

As he taught, he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes, to be greeted in the marketplaces,

As Jesus sat facing the offering box, he watched how the crowd was dropping their money into it. Many rich people were dropping in large amounts.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me,

While they were at the table eating, Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, one of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me."

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

So he told them, "I'm deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake."

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

All of you must stay awake and pray that you won't be tempted. The spirit is indeed willing, but the body is weak."

So Judas immediately went up to Jesus and said, "Rabbi," and kissed him tenderly.

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.'"

When she saw Peter warming himself, she glared at him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus from Nazareth."

When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, "Listen! He's calling for Elijah!"

When the centurion who stood facing Jesus saw how he had cried out and breathed his last, he said, "This man certainly was the Son of God!"

As they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were utterly astonished.

So the Lord Jesus, after talking with his disciples, was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.