And a man named Jairus came up??e was leader of the synagogue??nd he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house,

came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, and the hemorrhage stopped at once.

Jesus said, "Who was it who touched me?" And as everyone denied having done so, Peter said, "Master, the people are all around you and they are crowding you."

When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.

And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace."

But Jesus heard it and said to him, "Do not be afraid; just have faith, and she will get well."

And they laughed at him, for they knew that she was dead.

But he grasped her hand and called out, "Get up, my child!"

And her spirit returned and she stood up immediately, and he directed them to give her something to eat.

And her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.

and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.

Whatever house you go to stay in, remain there, and start on again from it.

Then the apostles came back and told Jesus what they had done. And he took them and quietly retired to a town called Bethsaida.

But the crowds learned of it and followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them about the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed to be cured.

And they all ate and had enough, and the pieces left over that were gathered up filled twelve baskets.

For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it.

What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

It was about eight days after Jesus said this that he took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

And as he was praying, the look of his face changed and his clothes turned dazzling white.

and they appeared in glory and spoke of his departure which he was to go through with at Jerusalem.

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

But as he said it, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were frightened as they passed under the cloud.

At the sound of the voice, they saw that Jesus was alone. And they kept silence, and said nothing about it to anyone at that time.

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, it happened that a great crowd met him.

And a man in the crowd shouted, "Master, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child,

and all at once a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him until he foams at the mouth, and it leaves him, after a struggle, badly bruised.

And I begged your disciples to drive it out, and they could not."

And they were all amazed at the power of God. While everybody was full of wonder at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples,

But they did not understand what he meant, indeed it was concealed from them, in order that they might not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes him who has sent me. For it is the lowliest among you all who is really great."

John answered, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he does not go with us."

and sent messengers before him. They started out and went into a Samaritan village, to make preparations for him.

Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home."

And he said to them, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few. So pray to the owner of the harvest to send reapers to gather it.

Now go. Here I send you out like lambs among wolves.

Whenever you go to stay at a house, first say, 'Peace to this household!'

If there is anyone there who loves peace, your blessing will rest upon him, but if there is not, it will come back to you.

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.

Whenever you come to a town and they welcome you, eat what is offered you,

But whenever you come to a town and they do not welcome you, go out into the open streets and say,

'The very dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off in protest. But understand this: the Kingdom of God is at hand!'

But Tyre and Sidon will fare better than you at the Judgment!

Here I have given you the power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to trample on all the power of the enemy. Nothing will hurt you at all.

At that moment he was inspired with joy, and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent, and revealing it to children! Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so!

And he turned to his disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

For I tell you, many prophets and kings have wished to see what you see, and could not see it, and to hear what you hear, and could not hear it!"

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?"

The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.'

She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

indeed there is only one thing we need. For Mary has chosen the right thing, and it must not be taken away from her."

for a friend of mine has just come to my house after a journey, and I have nothing for him to eat,'

I tell you, even if he will not get up and give him some because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him all he needs.

So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"

Once he was driving out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone the dumb man spoke. And the people were amazed.

But some of them said, "It is with the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of the demons, that he drives the demons out."

But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to them, "Any kingdom that is disunited is on the way to destruction, and one house falls after another.

And if Satan is disunited, how can his kingdom last? Because you say that I drive out demons with Beelzebub's aid.

But if it is with his aid that I drive out demons, by whose do your sons drive them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

But if it is with the finger of God that I am driving the demons out, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest, and when it finds none, it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left.'

And it goes and finds it unoccupied, cleaned, and all in order.

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."

But he said, "You might better say, 'Blessed are those who hear God's message and observe it!' "

As the crowds pressed a round him, he went on to say, "This is a wicked age! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah.

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

Men of Nineveh will rise with this generation at the Judgment and will condemn it, for they repented at Jonah's preaching, and there is more than Jonah here.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in the cellar or under a peck measure; he puts it on its stand, so that people who come in can see the light.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is light, but when it is unsound, your body is dark.

If, therefore, your whole body is light with no darkness in it at all, it will all be as light as a lamp makes things for you by its light."

When he said this, a Pharisee asked him to lunch with him, and he went to his house and took his place at table.

Alas for you! For you are like unmarked graves which men tread upon without knowing it."

At this, one of the experts in the Law said to him, "Master, when you say that, you affront us too."

So you testify to what your fathers did and approve it, for they killed them and you build their monuments.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you! This age will be charged with it all!

Alas for you experts in the Law! For you have taken the key to the door of knowledge, but you have not entered it yourselves, and you have kept out those who tried to enter."

After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects,

For what you say in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in someone's ear, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Do not sparrows sell five for two cents? And yet not one of them is forgotten in God's sight.

And anyone who speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but no one who reviles the holy Spirit will be forgiven.

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

for at the very moment the holy Spirit will teach you what you ought to say."

And he said to himself, 'What am I going to do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

Then he said, 'This is what I will do; I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grain and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have great wealth stored up for years to come. Now take your ease; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself." '

And he said to his disciples, "Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear.

Which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?

So you must not ask what you are to have to eat or drink, and you must not be anxious about it.

Sell what belongs to you, and give away the money! Get yourselves purses that will never wear out, inexhaustible riches in heaven, where thieves cannot get near nor moths destroy.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them.

Whether he comes late at night or early in the morning and finds them on the watch, they are blessed.

But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

You must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him."

Peter said to him, "Master, do you mean this figure for us, or is it for everybody?"

And the Master said, "Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful manager, whom his master will put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it.