just as he promised long ago through the mouth of his holy prophets

When the sun was setting, everyone who had any friends suffering from various diseases brought them to him. He placed his hands on each of them and began healing them.

The others were furious and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.

They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

So his disciples went to him, woke him up, and kept telling him, "Master! Master! We're going to die!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. They stopped, and there was calm.

Now Peter and the men with him had been overcome by sleep. When they woke up, they saw Jesus' glory and the two men standing with him.

"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Or if he asks for an egg, would he give him a scorpion?

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead it out of its stall to give it some water?

"So he called for each of his master's debtors. He asked the first, "How much do you owe my master?'

I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of my entire income.'

So Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day. Before this they had been enemies.

But at early dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

They were talking with each other about all these things that had taken place.

He asked them, "What are you discussing with each other as you're walking along?" They stood still and looked gloomy.

Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"