After John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee preaching the gospel of God;

Now Levi was at table in his own house, and he had many taxgatherers and sinners as guests along with Jesus and his disciples ??for there were many of them among his followers.

Jerusalem, Idumaea, the other side of the Jordan, and the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon, as they had heard of his doings.

for he healed so many that all who had complaints were pressing on him to get a touch of him.

But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,

but when the sun rose it got scorched and withered away, because it had no root;

for he had often been bound with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters ??nobody could tame him.

(For he had said, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.")

The herdsmen fled and reported it to the town and the hamlets. So the people came to see what had happened,

and when they reached Jesus they saw the lunatic sitting down, clothed and in his sober senses ??the man who had been possessed by 'Legion.' That frightened them.

And those who had seen it related to them what had happened to the lunatic and the swine.

So he went off and began to proclaim throughout Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; it made everyone astonished.

Now when Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side again, a large crowd gathered round him; so he remained beside the sea.

And there was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years ??26 she had suffered a great deal under a number of doctors and had spent all her means but was none the better; in fact she was rather worse.

Jesus was at once conscious that some healing virtue had passed from him, so he turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

But he kept looking round to see who had done it,

and the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward in fear and trembling and fell down before him, telling him all the truth.

Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;"

For this Herod had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of his marriage to Herodias the wife of his brother Philip;

John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife."

Herodias had a grudge against him; she wanted him killed but she could not manage it,

Now the apostles gathered to meet Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

They all ate and had enough;

for they had not understood the lesson of the loaves; their minds were dull.

And when they had disembarked, the people at once recognized Jesus;

Now the Pharisees gathered to meet him, with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet

In those days, when a large crowd had again gathered and when they had nothing to eat, he called the disciples and said to them,

and as they also had a few small fish, he blessed them too and told the disciples to serve them out as well.

They had forgotten to bring any bread, and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

As they went down the hill, he forbade them to tell anyone what they had seen, till such time as the Son of man rose from the dead.

They said nothing, for on the road they had been disputing about which of them was the greatest.

But his face fell at that, and he went sadly away, for he had great possessions.

So they answered as Jesus had told them, and the men allowed them to go.

Then they brought the colt to Jesus, and when they had put their clothes on it Jesus seated himself.

Next day, when they had left Bethany, he felt hungry,

Now as they passed in the morning they noticed the fig tree had withered to the root.

No, let us say, From men" ??but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.

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

Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away.

Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?"

Had not the Lord cut short those days, not a soul would be saved alive; but he has cut them short for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen.

Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.

The disciples went away into the city and found it was as he had told them. So they prepared the passover,

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

At that very moment, while he was still speaking, Judas [Iscariot] one of the twelve came up accompanied by a mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and scribes and elders.

Now his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, "Whoever I kiss, that is the man. Seize him and get him safely away."

Again the maidservant who had noticed him began to tell the bystanders, "That fellow is one of them."

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.

(There was a man called Bar-Abbas in prison, among the rioters who had committed murder during the insurrection.)

(For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.)

So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he handed over to be crucified, after he had scourged him.

then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited,

women who had followed him when he was in Galilee and waited on him, besides a number of other women who had accompanied him to Jerusalem.

Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time,

He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb.

And when the sabbath had passed Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices in order to go and anoint him;

But when they looked they saw the boulder had been rolled to one side,

(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

She went and reported it to those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept;

but although they heard he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

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."]