Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to disgrace her, decided to divorce her secretly.

After he had thought about it, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. "Joseph, son of David," he said, "don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

He did not have marital relations with her until she had given birth to a son; and he named him Jesus.

"A voice was heard in Ramah: wailing and great mourning. Rachel was crying for her children. She refused to be comforted, because they no longer existed."

John had clothing made of camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of grasshoppers and wild honey.

But I say to you, anyone who stares at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

"It was also said, "Whoever divorces his wife must give her a written notice of divorce.'

But I say to you, any man who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

Nor should you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

Can any of you add a single hour to the length of your life by worrying?

"Go," Jesus told the centurion, "and it will be done for you, just as you have believed." And his servant was healed that very hour.

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began serving him.

Suddenly, they screamed, "What do you want with us, Son of God? Did you come here to torture us before the proper time?"

While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up and fell down before him. "My daughter has just died," he said. "But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

When Jesus turned and saw her, he said, "Be courageous, daughter! Your faith has made you well." And from that very hour the woman was well.

When the crowd had been driven outside, he went in, took her by the hand, and the young lady got up.

When they hand you over, don't worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say, because in that hour what you are to say will be given to you.

I came to turn "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and observe:

the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the destitute hear the good news.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Absolved from every act of sin, is wisdom by her kith and kin."

But I tell you, something greater than the Temple is here!

"Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, whom I love, and with whom I am pleased! I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to unbelievers.

He will not quarrel or shout, and no one will hear him shouting in the streets.

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. But look something greater than Jonah is here!

The queen of the south will stand up and condemn the people living today, because she came from so far away to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look! Something greater than Solomon is here!"

Then pointing with his hand at his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers,

Other seeds fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes grew higher and choked them out.

That's why I speak to them in parables, because "they look but don't see, and they listen but don't hear or understand.'

for this people's heart has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that they might not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

"How blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear!

I tell all of you with certainty, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them."

John had been telling him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked for.

Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me, right here on a platter, the head of John the Baptist."

His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.

They told him, "We don't have anything here except five loaves of bread and two fish."

But he didn't answer her at all. Then his disciples came up and kept urging him, "Send her away, because she keeps on screaming as she follows us."

Then Jesus answered her, "Lady, your faith is great! What you want is granted." That very hour her daughter was healed.

I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

Then Peter told Jesus, "Lord, it's good that we're here! If you want, I'll set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Jesus replied, "You unbelieving and perverted generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed that very hour.

He told them, "Because of your lack of faith. I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

They asked him, "Why, then, did Moses order us "to give a certificate of divorce and divorce her'?"

"The kingdom from heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

About five o'clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, "Why are you standing here all day long without work?'

"These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!'

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons. She bowed down in front of him to ask him for a favor.

He asked her, "What do you want?" She told him, "Promise that in your kingdom these two sons of mine will sit on your right and on your left."

and asked him, "Do you hear what these people are saying?"

But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they told one another, "This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him and get his inheritance!'

He asked him, "Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But the man was speechless.

Now in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be, since all of them had married her?"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

But he told them, "You see all these things, don't you? I tell all of you with certainty, there isn't a single stone here that will be left standing on top of another. They will all be torn down."

You'll hear of wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you aren't alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,

"At that time, if anyone says to you, "Look! Here's the Messiah!' or "There he is!', don't believe it,

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father,

So you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you are not expecting."

that servant's master will come on a day when he doesn't expect him and at an hour that he doesn't know.

But at midnight there came a shout: "The groom is here! Come out to meet him!'

So keep on watching, because you don't know the day or the hour."

Since I was afraid, I went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here, take what's yours!'

Here's why: I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.

I tell all of you with certainty, wherever this gospel is proclaimed throughout the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her."

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane. He told the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over there and pray."

Then he told them, "I'm so deeply grieved that I feel I'm about to die. Wait here and stay awake with me."

When he went back to the disciples, he found them asleep. He told Peter, "So, you men couldn't stay awake with me for one hour, could you?

Jesus asked him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then the other men surged forward, took hold of Jesus, and arrested him.

Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear how many charges they're bringing against you?"

He is not here. He has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

Now John was dressed in camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist. He ate grasshoppers and wild honey.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever, so they promptly told Jesus about her.

He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

He added, "Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all, but rather grew worse.

Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.

So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward fearfully, fell down trembling in front of him, and told him the whole truth.

He told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."

He took her by the hand and told her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Young lady, I tell you, get up!"

But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.

This is the builder, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn't it? His sisters are here with us, aren't they?" And they were offended by him.

He swore with an oath to her, "I'll give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom."

So she went out and asked her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother replied, "The head of John the Baptist."

Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

The king was deeply saddened, yet because of his oaths and his guests he was reluctant to refuse her.

Then he brought John's head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!"

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

Then he told her, "Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter."