And all were amazed and awe-struck, so they began to ask one another, "What does this mean? Here is a new sort of teaching--and a tone of authority! And even to foul spirits he issues orders and they obey him!"

Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill in bed with a fever, and without delay they informed Him about her.

So He went to her, and taking her hand He raised her to her feet: the fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

Feeding there, on the mountain slope, was a great herd of swine.

He gave them leave; and the foul spirits came out and entered into the swine, and the herd--about 2,000 in number--rushed headlong down the cliff into the Lake and were drowned in the Lake.

and besought Him with many entreaties. "My little daughter," he said, "is at the point of death: I pray you come and lay your hands upon her, that she may recover and live."

In a moment the flow of her blood ceased, and she felt in herself that her complaint was cured.

until the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself at His feet, and told Him all the truth.

So they come to the Warden's house. Here He gazes on a scene of uproar, with people weeping aloud and wailing.

Then, taking her by the hand, He says to her, "Talitha, koum;" that is to say, "Little girl, I command you to wake!"

Instantly the little girl rises to her feet and begins to walk (for she was twelve years old)

but He gave strict injunctions that the matter should not be made known, and directed them to give her something to eat.

Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" So they turned angrily away.

For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

At length Herodias found her opportunity. Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to the nobles of his court and to the tribunes and the principal people in Galilee,

at which Herodias's own daughter came in and danced, and so charmed Herod and his guests that he said to her, "Ask me for anything you please, and I will give it to you."

He even swore to her, "Whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom."

She at once went out and said to her mother: "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptizer," she replied.

The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."

Then the King, though intensely sorry, yet for the sake of his oaths, and of his guests, would not break faith with her.

and brought his head on a dish and gave it to the young girl, who gave it to her mother.

send them away that they may go to the farms and villages near here and buy themselves something to eat."

Then He rose and left that place and went into the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon. Here He entered a house and wished no one to know it, but He could not escape observation.

She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.

Here they brought to Him a deaf man that stammered, on whom they begged Him to lay His hands.

"Where can we possibly get bread here in this remote place to satisfy such a crowd?" answered His disciples.

He went on to say, "In solemn truth I tell you that some of those who are standing here will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of God already come in power."

when Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, we are thankful to you that we are here. Let us put up three tents--one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

"Go," He said, "to the village facing you, and immediately on entering it you will find an ass's foal tied up which no one has ever yet ridden: untie him and bring him here.

And if any one asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Master needs it, and will send it back here without delay.'"

"But those men--the vine-dressers--said to one another, "'Here is the heir: come, let us kill him, and then the property will one day be ours.'

The second married her, and died, leaving no family; and the third did the same.

At the Resurrection whose wife will she be? For they all seven married her."

for they have all contributed out of what they could well spare, but she out of her need has thrown in all she possessed--all she had to live on."

"You see all these great buildings?" Jesus replied; "not one stone will be left here upon another--not thrown down."

"At that time if any one says to you, 'See, here is the Christ!' or 'See, He is there!' do not believe it.

"At that time, however, after that distress, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed her light;

For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds or more, and the money have been given to the poor." And they were exceedingly angry with her.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her? She has done a most gracious act towards me.

And I solemnly tell you that wherever in the whole world the Good News shall be proclaimed, this which she has done shall also be told in remembrance of her."

So they came to a place called Gethsemane. There He said to His disciples, "Sit down here till I have prayed."

and He said to them, "My heart is oppressed with anguish to the very point of death: wait here and keep awake."

Here they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He refused it.

But he said to them, "Do not be terrified. It is Jesus you are looking for--the Nazarene who has been crucified. He has come back to life: He is not here: this is the place where they laid Him.