Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,

from Isa. 40:3], "Look, I am sending my messenger on ahead of you. He will prepare the way for you.

John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a beast's skin about his loins. And he did eat locusts and wild honey,

He announced, "After me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to stoop and untie the string of his sandals:

I baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

and he was there in the wilderness forty days, and was tempted of Satan, and was with wild beasts. And the angels ministered unto him.

And Jesus said unto them, "Follow me, and I will make you to be fishers of men."

And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeled down unto him, and said unto him, "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean."

And Jesus had compassion on him, and put forth his hand, touched him, and said unto him, "I will, be thou clean."

But, so you will know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins (He then said to the paralyzed man),

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.

But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them and then shall they fast in those days.

"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and the tear is made worse.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. {Otherwise} the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins [too]. But new wine [is put] into new wineskins."

and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom will not be able to stand.

And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

And if Satan is at war with himself, and there is division in him, he will not keep his place but will come to an end.

But no one can, having entered into his house, plunder the goods of the strong man unless he first bind the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

"Truly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme.

but whoever will speak impiously against the Holy Spirit shall never have forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.

For whosoever doeth the will of God, he is my brother, my sister and mother."

He said to them, "You disciples are being given an understanding of the secret of the kingdom of God, but to outsiders everything will be told in parables.

tho' they see, they will not perceive, and tho' they hear they will not understand: as if they were afraid of parting with their vices, in order to be pardoned.

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?

For nothing is secret except so that it may be revealed, nor has become hidden except so that it will come to light.

And he said to them, "Take care what you hear! With the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you, and will be added to you.

For whoever has, [more] will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him."

But as soon as the crop Will permit it, he puts in the sickle, for the reaping time has come."

He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

yet when sown shoots up and becomes larger than any plant, sending out such branches that the wild birds build their nests under its shadow."

On the side of a [nearby] mountain, a large herd of [wild] hogs was grazing.

The evil spirits begged Him, saying, "Send us into those [wild] hogs, so we can enter their bodies."

And He gave them permission to do it. So, the evil spirits went out of the man's body and entered the bodies of the [wild] hogs. The herd then rushed down the cliff into the lake. There were about two thousand that drowned in the lake.

Those who saw this told the people what had happened to the man dominated by the evil spirits and about the [wild] hogs.

And he was imploring him many [times], saying, "My little daughter {is at the point of death}! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live."

for she was saying, "If I touch just his clothing, I will be healed!"

If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

And the daughter of the said Herodias came in and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat at board also. Then the king said unto the maiden, "Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee."

And he sware unto her, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, even unto the one half of my kingdom."

And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, "I will, that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John Baptist."

(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.

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.

He replied, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders), as it is written [in Scripture],

‘These people honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.

And if I send them away hungry to their homes they will give out on the way, and some of them have come from far away."

"Where will it be possible," answered his disciples, "for one to fill these men with bread in a lonely place like this?"

Then he told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power."

And sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!"

And he called the people unto him, with his disciples also, and said unto them, "Whosoever will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it. But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?

Or, what will a man give as a ransom for his life?

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you, that there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the kingdom of God having come with power."

And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and we will make three tabernacles, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah;

And as they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no man what they saw, except when the Son of man will rise from the dead.

"Elijah does indeed first come," he said, "and restores all things, But how is it written about the Son of Man, that he will endure great suffering, and be rejected?

And he answered them [and] said, "O unbelieving generation! {How long} will I be with you? {How long} must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

And he said to them, Nothing will make this sort come out but prayer.

for he was teaching his disciples and was telling them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And [when he] is killed, after three days he will rise."

And he sat down [and] called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all."

Whoever will receive one of such children on my account, receives me; and whoever will receive me, receives not me, but him that sent me.

But Jesus said, "Do not prevent him, because there is no one who does a miracle in my name and will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in [my] name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you that he will never lose his reward.

And whoever will ensnare one of these little ones that believe on me, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.

And if thy hand cause thee to offend, cut it off: it were better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having both hands to go into hell, into the fire that never will be quenched:

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched --

where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out.

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Salt is good, but if the salt is become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.

Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife,

and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two but one flesh.

And he says to them, Whoever may divorce his wife, and will marry another, commits adultery against her.

And if a woman should divorce her husband, and will be married to another, she commits adultery.

Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."

And [as] he was setting out on [his] way, one [individual] ran up and knelt down before him [and] asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?"

And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one [thing]: Go, sell all that you have, and give [the proceeds] to the poor--and you will have treasure in heaven--and come, follow me."

Then Jesus looked around and told his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!"

{who will not} receive a hundred times as much now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.

But many [who are] first will be last, and the last first."

"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles.

And they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill [him], and after three days he will rise."

And there come near unto him, James and John, the twosons of Zebedee, - saying unto him - Teacher! we desire, that, whatsoever we shall ask thee, thou wilt do for us.

He said unto them, What will ye that I should do for you?

But Jesus said to them, "You [really] do not know what you are asking for. Are you able to drink the cup [i.e., of suffering] that I will drink? Or [are you able] to be immersed with the immersion that I am [to be] immersed with?" [i.e., to be overwhelmed with agony].

And they said to him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup that I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with,

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 shall it not be among you: but whosoever of you will be great among you, shall be your minister.

And whosoever will be chief, shall be servant unto all.

And Jesus answered, and said unto him, "What wilt thou that I do unto thee?" The blind said unto him, "Master, that I might see."

and said to them, "Go into the village before you, and right away [as you] enter into it you will find a colt tied, on which no one [has] ever sat. Untie it and bring [it].

And if any man say unto you, 'Why do ye so?' say that the Lord hath need of him: and straightway he will send him hither."

And having seen a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he will find anything on it. And when he came to it he found nothing except leaves, for it was not the time of figs.

Therefore, He said to the tree, "From now on no one will ever eat fruit from you." Now His disciples heard Him say this.

And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

I tell you truly, whoever says to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' and has not a doubt in his mind but believes that what he says will happen, he will have it done.

For this [reason] I say to you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received [it], and it will be [done] for you.

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive [him], so that your Father who [is] in heaven will also forgive you your sins."

But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your offences.

Jesus said to them, "I am going to ask you a question. Answer this, and I will tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.