He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."

At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.

He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

He looked around to see her who had done this thing.

But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe."

The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.

He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.

They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid."

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"

He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?

He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."

But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.

Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.

He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"

They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."

When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."

"When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."

But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man of whom you speak!"

Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

save yourself, and come down from the cross!"

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him insulted him.

One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."

He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.