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

"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

So Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said, "I do want to. Be clean!" And instantly his leprosy was made clean.

When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gerasenes, two demon-possessed men met him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could travel on that road.

Then the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

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.

"So never be afraid of them, because there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not be made known.

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.'

"He said, "No! If you pull out the weeds, you might pull out the wheat with them.

But you say, "Whoever tells his father or his mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me has been given to God,"

Because he couldn't pay, his master ordered him, his wife, his children, and everything that he owned to be sold so that payment could be made.

He answered them, "Haven't you read that the one who made them at the beginning "made them male and female'

because some men are celibate from birth, while some are celibate because they have been made that way by others. Still others are celibate because they have made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom from heaven. Let anyone accept this who can."

Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they met together in the same place.

You blind fools! What is more important, the gold or the sanctuary that made the gold holy?

"At that time, the kingdom from heaven will be comparable to ten bridesmaids who took their oil lamps and went out to meet the groom.

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

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

But all of this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.

Meanwhile, Jesus was made to stand in front of the governor. The governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus said, "You say so."

While Jesus was being accused by the high priests and elders, he made no reply.

Suddenly, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" They went up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.

So they met with the elders and agreed on a plan to give the soldiers a large amount of money.

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and told him, "I do want to. Be made clean!"

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

"I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!"

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

Then he told them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

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.'"

Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.

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

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"

But from the beginning of creation, "God made them male and female.'

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

He sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jug of water. Follow him.

Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"

according to the promise he made to our ancestors to Abraham and his descendants forever."

Indeed, a sword will pierce your own soul, too, so that the inner thoughts of many people might be revealed."

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be leveled. The crooked ways will be made straight, and the rough roads will be made smooth.

So he said, "You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are given in parables, so that "they might look but not see, and they might listen but not understand.'"

When Jesus stepped out on the shore, a man from the city met him. This man was controlled by demons and had not worn clothes for a long time. He did not live in a house but in the tombs.

Then he told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace."

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met Jesus.

Later, an argument started among the disciples as to which of them might be the greatest.

At that moment, the Holy Spirit made Jesus extremely joyful, so Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this is what was pleasing to you.

You fools! The one who made the outside made the inside, too, didn't he?

They watched him closely in an effort to trap him in something he might say.

There is nothing covered up that won't be exposed and nothing secret that won't be made known.

Then Jesus taught in one town and village after another as he made his way to Jerusalem.

As he was going into a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance

When Jesus saw them, he told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." While they were going, they were made clean.

Jesus asked, "Ten men were made clean, weren't they? Where are the other nine?

Then he told the man, "Get up, and go home! Your faith has made you well."

So Jesus told him, "See again! Your faith has made you well."

He told them, "Just after you go into the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters

Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him. He put a magnificent robe on Jesus and sent him back to Pilate.

As they led Jesus away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

The soldiers also made fun of Jesus by coming up and offering him sour wine,

Then he opened their minds so that they might understand the Scriptures.

Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.

But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'"

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them,

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God's work might be revealed in him.

After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes

He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, "Go to Siloam and wash.' So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and healed his eyes.

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."

He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'

For you have given him authority over all humanity so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

"And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them."