and had had a great deal of treatment from various doctors and had spent all that she had and had not been benefited at all but had actually grown worse,

Jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him, and he turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

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

Even as he spoke people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why should you trouble the Master any further?"

If any place refuses to receive you or to listen to you, when you leave it shake off the very dust from the soles of your feet as a warning to them."

King Herod heard of him, for his name was now well known, and people were saying that John the baptizer had risen from the dead, and that that was why he was endowed with these extraordinary powers.

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

And many people saw them start and knew of it, and hurried around by land from all the neighboring towns, and got ahead of them.

And whatever village or town or farm he went to, they would lay their sick in the market-place and beg him to let them touch just the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched it were cured.

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way,

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

you let him off from doing anything more for his father or mother,

Nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him. It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him."

And he said to them, "Have not even you any understanding then? Do you not see that nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him,

For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly??23 all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."

He took him off by himself away from the crowd, and put his fingers in the man's ears, and touched his tongue with saliva.

And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."

The Pharisees came out and began a discussion with him, testing him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

And a cloud came and overshadowed them, and from the cloud came a voice, "This is my Son, my Beloved. Listen to him,"

As they were going down the mountain, he cautioned them to let no one know what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

And they did not forget what he said, but discussed with one another what he meant by the rising from the dead.

"From his childhood, and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to put an end to him. But if there is anything you can do, take pity on us and help us!"

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

And many of the people spread their coats in the road, and others cut straw from the fields and scattered it in his path.

Blessed be the reign of our father David which is coming! God bless him from on high!"

And he spoke to the tree and said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you any more!" And his disciples heard it.

Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me."

And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

Yet can we say, 'It was from men'?" For they were afraid of the people, because all the people thought John was really a prophet.

At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage.

This came from the Lord And seems marvelous to us'?"

For when people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, but they live as angels do in heaven.

And Jesus saw that he answered thoughtfully, and he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God!" And no one ventured to ask him any more questions.

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him, apart from the others,

and the stars will fall from the sky and the forces in the sky will shake.

and then he will send out the angels and gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the world to the other.

And he took the wine cup and gave thanks and gave it to them and they all drank from it.

and he said, "Abba!" that is, Father, "anything is possible for you! Take this cup away from me! Yet not what I please but what you do!"

Just at that moment, while he was still speaking, Judas, who was one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a crowd of men with swords and clubs, from the high priests, scribes, and elders.

And they forced a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross??ne Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

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

There were some women also watching from a distance, among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joses, and Salome,

and when he learned from the captain that he was, he gave Joseph permission to take the body.

And he bought a linen sheet and took him down from the cross and wrapped him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the doorway of the tomb.

And they said to one another, "Who will roll the stone back from the doorway of the tomb for us?"

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.

Afterward he showed himself in a different form to two of them as they were walking along, on their way into the country.

Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.

For that reason, Theophilus, and because I have investigated it all carefully from the beginning, I have determined to write a connected account of it for Your Excellency,

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth,

For he has noticed his slave in her humble station, For from this time all the ages will think me favored!

"By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this??71 To save us from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us,

That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies,

"Because the heart of our God is merciful, And so the day will dawn upon us from on high,

And Joseph went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he belonged to the house and family of David,

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from God came to Zechariah's son John in the desert.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the holy Spirit, and he was led about in the desert

And he took him to Jerusalem, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple, and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from here,

And they all spoke well of him and were astonished at the winning words that fell from his lips, and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son?"

and they got up and drove him out of the town and took him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, intending to throw him down from it.

When it was day, he left the house and made his way to a lonely spot, and crowds of people went in search of him, and overtook him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

And he got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds of people from the boat.

and so were Zebedee's sons, James and John, who were Simon's partners. Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid. From now on you are to catch men!"

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

But other days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, in those days they will fast."

He used this figure also in speaking to them: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and sews it on an old one, or if he does, he will both tear the new one and the piece from the new one will not match the old one.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

And all the people tried to touch him, because power went forth from him and cured them all.

To the man that strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from the man who takes away your coat, do not keep back your shirt either.

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John,

You did not give me a kiss, but from the moment I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet.

When a great throng was gathering and people were coming to him from one town after another, he said in his figurative way,

And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.

The ones by the path are those who hear, and then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved.

So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."

They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.

But Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I know that power passed from me."

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

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

And where they will not welcome you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

And they set forth and went from village to village, telling the good news and curing people everywhere.

Herod the governor heard of all that was happening, and he was perplexed because some people said that John had risen from the dead,

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.

And from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen! Listen to him!"

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

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.

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

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.