Now then, give orders for the tomb to be kept secure till the third day, in case his disciples go and steal him and then tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead.' The end of the fraud will then be worse than the beginning of it."

But a great earthquake took place; an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled away the boulder and sat on it.

Now be quick and go to his disciples, tell them he has risen from the dead and that 'he precedes you to Galilee; you shall see him there.' That is my message for you."

Then they ran quickly from the tomb in fear and great joy, to announce the news to his disciples.

Now it was in those days that Jesus arrived from Nazaret in Galilee and got baptized in the Jordan by John.

And the moment he rose from the water he saw the heavens cleft and the Spirit coming down upon him like a dove;

then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'

But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them; then they will fast, on that day.

No one stitches a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, otherwise the patch breaks away, the new from the old, and the tear is made worse:

Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea, and a large number of people from Galilee followed him; also a large number came to him from Judaea,

But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

For he who has, to him shall more be given; while as for him who has not, from him shall be taken even what he has."

And as soon as he stepped out of the boat a man from the tombs came to meet him, a man with an unclean spirit

On catching sight of Jesus from afar he ran and knelt before him,

Jesus was at once conscious that some healing virtue had passed from him, so he turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be free from your complaint."

He was still speaking when a message came from the house of the synagogue-president, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher to come any further?"

Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;"

However a number of people who saw them start and recognized them, got to the place before them by hurrying there on foot from all the towns.

Now the Pharisees gathered to meet him, with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].)

He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites ??as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:

he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother.

nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.

Now when he went indoors away from the crowd, his disciples asked him the meaning of this parabolic saying.

It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean).

"No," he said, "it is what comes from a man, that is what defiles him.

From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder,

all these evils issue from within and they defile a man."

So she went home and found the child lying in bed and the daemon gone from her.

So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva,

Then his ears were [at once] opened and his tongue freed from its fetter ??he began to speak correctly.

Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him.

Then a cloud came overshadowing them, and from the cloud a voice said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, listen to him."

As they went down the hill, he forbade them to tell anyone what they had seen, till such time as the Son of man rose from the dead.

This order they obeyed, debating with themselves what 'rising from the dead' meant.

A man from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit,

Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said;

But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them:

"Teacher," he said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth."

Many also spread their clothes on the road, while others strewed leaves cut from the fields;

Then he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you after this!" The disciples heard him say it.

What about the baptism of John? Was it from heaven or from men?"

Now they argued to themselves, "[What are we to say?] If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why did you not believe him.'

No, let us say, From men" ??but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.

When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to collect from the vine dressers some of the produce of the vineyard,

When people rise from the dead they neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels in heaven.

for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now ??no and never shall be.

the stars will drop from heaven, and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.

Then he will despatch his angels and muster the elect from the four winds, from the verge of earth to the verge of heaven.

Then he went forward a little and fell to the earth, praying that the hour might pass away from him, if possible.

"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

At that very moment, while he was still speaking, Judas [Iscariot] one of the twelve came up accompanied by a mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and scribes and elders.

Now at festival time he used to release for them some prisoner whom they begged from him.

They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

and on ascertaining this from the captain he bestowed the corpse on Joseph.

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

and inasmuch as I have gone carefully over them all myself from the very beginning, I have decided, O Theophilus, to write them out in order for your excellency,

for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, he will drink neither wine nor strong drink, he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth;

for he has considered the humiliation of his servant. From this time forth all generations will call me blessed,

to save us from our foes and from the hand of all who hate us,

that freed from fear and from the hand of our foes we should worship him

by the tender mercy of our God, who will make the Dawn visit us from on high,

and as Joseph belonged to the house and family of David he went up from Galilee to Judaea, from the town of Nazaret to David's town called Bethlehem,

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

From the Jordan Jesus came back full of the holy Spirit,

Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this;

All spoke well of him and marvelled at the gracious words that came from his lips; they said, "Is this not Joseph's son?"

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

When day broke he went away out to a lonely spot, but the crowds made inquiries about him, came to where he was, and tried to keep him from leaving them.

So he entered one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the land. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

as was the case with James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, who were partners of Simon. Then said Jesus to Simon, "Have no fear; from now your catch will be men."

One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast at that time."

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; otherwise he will tear the new cloak, and the new piece will not match with the old.

With them he came down the hill and stood on a level spot. There was a great company of his disciples with him, and a large multitude of people from all Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to get cured of their diseases.

Indeed the whole of the crowd made efforts to touch him, for power issued from him and cured everybody.

give to anyone who asks you, and do not ask your goods back from anyone who has taken them.

If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return.

each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

The good man produces good from the good stored in his heart, and the evil man evil from his evil: for a man's mouth utters what his heart is full of.

When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said,

So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof,

Just as he was near the gate of the town, there was a dead man being carried out; he was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town were with her.

Shortly afterwards he went travelling from one town and village to another preaching and telling the good news of the Reign of God; he was accompanied by the twelve

As a large crowd was gathering and as people were resorting to him from town after town, he addressed them in a parable.

Those 'on the road' are people who hear; but then the devil comes and carries off the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

So take care how you listen; for he who has, to him shall more be given, while as for him who has not, from him shall be taken even what he thinks he has."

As he stepped out on land he was met by a man from the town who had daemons in him; for a long while he had worn no clothing, and he stayed not in a house but among the tombs.

They got a report from those who had seen how the lunatic was cured,

Jesus said, "Somebody did touch me, for I felt power had passed from me."

He was still speaking when someone came from the house of the synagogue-president to say, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher any further."