for they had not understood the lesson of the loaves; their minds were dull.

And when they had disembarked, the people at once recognized Jesus;

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

a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet

In those days, when a large crowd had again gathered and when they had nothing to eat, he called the disciples and said to them,

and as they also had a few small fish, he blessed them too and told the disciples to serve them out as well.

They had forgotten to bring any bread, and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

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.

They said nothing, for on the road they had been disputing about which of them was the greatest.

But his face fell at that, and he went sadly away, for he had great possessions.

So they answered as Jesus had told them, and the men allowed them to go.

Then they brought the colt to Jesus, and when they had put their clothes on it Jesus seated himself.

Next day, when they had left Bethany, he felt hungry,

Now as they passed in the morning they noticed the fig tree had withered to the root.

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

He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away.

Then a scribe came up, who had listened to the discussion. Knowing Jesus had given them an apt answer, he put this question to him, "What is the chief of all the commands?"

Had not the Lord cut short those days, not a soul would be saved alive; but he has cut them short for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen.

Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.

The disciples went away into the city and found it was as he had told them. So they prepared the passover,

The Son of man goes the road that the scripture has described for him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! Better that man had never been born!"

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 his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, "Whoever I kiss, that is the man. Seize him and get him safely away."

Again the maidservant who had noticed him began to tell the bystanders, "That fellow is one of them."

At that moment the cock crowed for the second time. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had told him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me thrice;" and he burst into tears.

(There was a man called Bar-Abbas in prison, among the rioters who had committed murder during the insurrection.)

(For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.)

So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he handed over to be crucified, after he had scourged him.

then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited,

women who had followed him when he was in Galilee and waited on him, besides a number of other women who had accompanied him to Jerusalem.

Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time,

He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb.

And when the sabbath had passed Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices in order to go and anoint him;

But when they looked they saw the boulder had been rolled to one side,

(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

She went and reported it to those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept;

but although they heard he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

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."]

In the days of Herod king of Judaea there was a priest called Zechariah, who belonged to the division of Abijah; he had a wife who belonged to the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

but they had no child, for Elizabeth was barren. Both of them were advanced in years.

When he did come out he could not speak to them, so they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary; he made signs to them and remained dumb.

Then, after his term of service had elapsed, he went home.

Now the time for Elizabeth's delivery had elapsed, and she gave birth to a son.

Now when the angels had left them and gone away to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us be off to Bethlehem to see this thing that the Lord has told us of."

When they saw this they told people about the word which had been spoken to them about the child;

Then the shepherds went away back, glorifying and extolling God for all they had heard and seen as they had been told they would.

When the eight days had passed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus ??the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

When the days for their purification in terms of the Mosaic law had elapsed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

indeed it had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he was not to see death before he had seen the Lord messiah.

When they had finished all the regulations of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazaret.

"Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife as well as for all the wickedness that he, Herod, had committed,

Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened

Then he came to Nazaret, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath he entered the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read the lesson

At sunset all who had any people ill with any sort of disease brought them to him; he laid his hands on everyone and healed them.

two boats on the shore of the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets.

For amazement had seized him and all his companions at the take of fish they had caught;

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.

Instantly he got up before them, lifted what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,

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.

He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

When he had finished what he had to say in the hearing of the people, he went into Capharnahum.

Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;

When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

(On hearing this all the people and the taxgatherers acknowledged the justice of God, as they had been baptized with the baptism of John;

but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)

"There was a moneylender who had two debtors; one owed him fifty pounds, the other five.

"I suppose," said Simon, "the man who had most forgiven." "Quite right," he said.

and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven),

some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;

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.

(For he had charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many a time when it had seized hold of him, he had been fastened secure in fetters and chains, but he would snap his bonds and be driven by the daemon into the desert.)

So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, for a number of daemons had entered him.

When the herdsmen saw what had occurred they fled and reported it to the town and the hamlets.

The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.

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

The man whom the daemons had left begged that he might accompany him. Jesus, however, sent him away, saying,

"Go home and describe all that God has done for you." So he went off to proclaim through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

for he had an only daughter about twelve years old and she was dying. As Jesus went the crowds kept crushing him,

and a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years which no one could cure,

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

So when the woman saw she had not escaped notice, she came trembling, and falling down before him she told before all the people why she had touched him and how she had been instantly cured.

Her parents were amazed, but he charged them not to tell anyone what had happened.

When Herod the tetrarch heard all that was going on, he was quite at a loss; for some said that John had risen from the dead,

some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had arisen.

Then the apostles came back and described all they had done to Jesus. He took them and retired in private to a town called Bethsaida,

And they all ate and had enough. What they had left over was picked up, twelve baskets full of fragments.

Now Peter and his companions had been overpowered with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men who were standing beside him.

When the voice ceased, they found themselves alone with Jesus. And in those days they kept silence and told nobody anything of what they had seen.

Woe to you, Khorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! Had the miracles performed in you been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have been sitting penitent in sackcloth and ashes.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.

He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,

The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal,

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,

Be sure that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

It was at this time that some people came to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

And he told this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; he came in search of fruit on it but he found none.