John the Baptizer appeared in the desert and was preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins.

Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

And He stayed in the desert forty days, while He was being tempted by Satan; yea, He was with the wild beasts, but the angels continued to wait upon Him.

Now after John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God:

As He was walking along the shore of the sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets in the sea, for they were fishermen.

And they were dumbfounded at His teaching, for He was teaching them like one who had authority to teach, and not like the scribes.

Just at that moment there was a man in their synagogue who was under the spell of a foul spirit, and so he screamed,

And Simon's mother-in-law was confined to her bed with a fever. So they at once told Him about her.

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

And His heart was moved with pity for him, so He stretched out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do want to! Be cured!"

And the leprosy at once left him, and he was cured.

After some days He came back to Capernaum, and it was reported that He was at home,

and so many people gathered there that there was no longer any room even around the door. He was telling them His message.

And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on.

Then he got up and at once picked up his pallet, and went out before them all. The result was that they were all dumbfounded and began to praise God and say, "We have never seen anything like this before."

And as He was passing by, He saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting in the tax-collector's office, and He said to him, "Follow me." Then he got up and followed Him.

Levi was at table in his house, and he had many tax-collectors and notorious sinners as guests, along with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many of them, and they began to follow Him.

And when the scribes who belonged to the Pharisees' party saw that He was eating with notorious sinners and tax-collectors, they said to His disciples, "Why does He eat with tax-collectors and notorious sinners?"

On the Sabbath He was passing through the wheat fields, and His disciples started to make a path by pulling off the wheat heads.

How is it that he went into the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the sacred loaves, which it is against the law for anyone except the priests to eat, and gave part of them to his soldiers, too?"

Then He said to them, "The Sabbath was made to serve man and not man to keep the Sabbath.

Then He went into a synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

So Jesus looked around at them in anger, because He was pained over their stubbornness of mind, and said to the man, "Hold out your hand." And he held it out, and his hand was cured.

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the other side of the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon -- yes, a vast throng of people, as they kept hearing of the great things that He was doing, came to Him.

But He charged them time after time not to tell who He was.

And again the crowds gathered so that it was not possible for them even to take their meals.

And a crowd was sitting around Him when they told Him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

Then He began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around Him so great that He got into a boat and was sitting in it, just off the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the sea.

As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up.

Some fell upon rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep;

When He was by Himself, those who stayed about Him with the Twelve began to ask Him about the stories.

And He was saying to them: "Take care what you hear. The measure you give will come back to you, and more besides.

He also was saying: "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground,

That same day when it was evening, He said to them, "Let us go over to the other Side."

So they left the crowd and took Him in the boat in which he was sitting. And there were other boats with Him.

But a furious squall of wind came up, and the waves were dashing over into the boat, so that it was fast filling.

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Be still." And the wind lulled, and there was a great calm.

for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him.

For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."

Now there was a large drove of hogs grazing on the hillside.

And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him.

And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.

When Jesus again had crossed in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about Him, as He was standing on the seashore.

and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse,

Her hemorrhage stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was cured.

Even while He was saying this, people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Teacher any longer?"

But Jesus paid no attention to what was said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only keep up your faith."

Then they began to laugh in His face. But He drove them all out, and took the little girl's father and mother and the men with Him, and went into the room where the little girl was.

And the little girl at once got up and started walking around, for she was twelve years old. And instantly they were completely dumbfounded.

King Herod heard of Him, for His name was now on everybody's lips, and people were saying that John the Baptist had risen from the dead, and that this was why such mighty powers were working in Him.

But others were saying that He was Elijah, and still others that He was a prophet like the prophets of old.

for Herod stood in awe of John, because he knew that he was an upright and holy man, and so he protected him. When he heard him speak, he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.

And He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and rest a little while." For there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and they had no time even to eat.

So when He got out of the boat, He saw a great crowd waiting, and His heart was moved with pity at the sight of them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and so He proceeded to teach them a number of things.

Then He insisted that the disciples at once get into their boat and cross ahead of Him toward Bethsaida, while He was sending the crowd away.

Now when evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the sea, while He was alone on land.

And because He saw that they were struggling at the oars, for the wind was against them, a while before daybreak He started toward them walking on the sea, and He meant to go right up beside them.

But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost and screamed aloud,

and hurried all over the countryside and began to bring the sick to Him on their pallets, wherever they heard He was.

And whatever villages or towns or country places He came to, they would lay the sick in the market-places and beg Him to let them touch just the tassel of His coat, and everybody that touched it was cured.

and will never eat until they have carefully washed their hands, and they never eat anything brought from the market until they wash it; and they have many other religious practices which they got from their forefathers, as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pans.

Then He left there and went into the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wanted no one to know that He was there. But He could not escape public notice.

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

But He was saying to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it out to the house dogs."

And they brought to Him a man who was deaf and almost dumb, and they begged Him to lay His hand upon him.

And his ears were opened and his tongue was untied, and he began to speak distinctly.

Then He laid His hands upon his eyes again, and he looked the best he could and was cured, and saw everything distinctly.

Then Jesus and His disciples left Galilee and went to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way there He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

And without any reserve He was telling them this fact. So Peter took Him aside and began to reprove Him for it.

Six days after this, Jesus took Peter, James, and John with Him, and led them up on a high mountain, alone by themselves. And in their presence His appearance was changed,

For he did not really know what to say, he was so frightened.

Then a cloud came and was circling over them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my Son, my Beloved; keep on listening to Him!"

Then Jesus, because He saw that a crowd was rushing up to Him, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never get into him again."

Then it gave a shriek and violently convulsed the boy, and got out of him. And the boy looked like a corpse, so much so that the people said that he was dead.

When Jesus got home and was by Himself, His disciples were asking Him, "Why could not we drive it out?"

for He was now teaching His disciples, and saying to them, "The Son of Man is to be turned over into men's hands, and they will kill Him, but three days after that He will rise again."

But they had nothing to say, for they had discussed with one another which of them was to be the greatest.

John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to drive out demons, and we tried to stop him, for he was not one of our followers."

Then He left there and went through the district of Judea and crossed the Jordan, and crowds of people again met around Him, and again He began to teach them, as His custom was.

But Jesus said to them, "It was due to your moral perversity that Moses wrote that command in your law.

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant, and said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

As He was again starting on a journey, a man ran up to Him, and knelt to Him, and was asking Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get eternal life?"

But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

As they were walking along the road up to Jerusalem, Jesus was going on ahead of them, but they were dazed while those who were still following were afraid. Then again He took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to befall Him.

Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho, with His disciples and a great crowd, Timeus' son, Bartimeus, a blind beggar, was sitting on the roadside.

When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, "Jesus, you son of David, do pity me!"

And so He went into Jerusalem and into the temple. After He had looked everything over, as it was already late, He went out with the Twelve to Bethany.

Now in the distance He saw a fig tree covered with leaves, and He went up to it to see if He might find some figs on it, but when He got to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

Then the high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they kept looking for some way to destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him, for everybody was swept off his feet at what He said.

In the morning as they were passing along, they noticed that the fig tree was withered, clear down to its roots.

Then again they went into Jerusalem. And while Jesus was walking about in the temple, the high priests, scribes, and elders came up to Him

Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me."

Then they argued with one another in this way, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' He will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

On the other hand, can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because everybody thought that John was really a prophet.

While He was teaching in the temple, He answered them and said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

Then He sat down in front of the collection-box and was watching the people as they dropped their money into it. And many rich people were dropping in large sums.

As He was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, "Look, Teacher! What stupendous stones, what beautiful buildings!"

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew, in a private group, were asking Him,

Now the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days later. So the high priests and scribes kept looking for some way to arrest Him by stratagem and have Him put to death,