Now therefore give order to have the sepulcher securely guarded until the third day, for fear his disciples may come and steal him away, and then tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead'; and so the last error will be worse than the first."

There had been a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, and gone and rolled away the stone, and was sitting upon it.

And go quickly and tell his disciples. 'He is risen from the dead; he goes before you into Galilee; you will see him there.' Remember, I have told you."

On this they ran quickly from the sepulcher, in fear and great joy, to tell the news to his disciples.

"If this should reach the Governor's ears," they said, "we will satisfy him and screen you from punishment."

It was at that time that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan;

and as soon as he rose from the water he saw the sky cleft asunder, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him,

and a voice from the sky. "Thou art my Son, my beloved; in thee is my delight."

But he went out and began to tell every one and to publish it broadcast, so that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; but he had to remain outside in lonely places, and people kept coming to him from every quarter.

But the days will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them; then, on that day, they will fast.

No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment, otherwise the patch tears away from it??he new from the old??nd a worse tear is made.

Then Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and a great crowd of people from Galilee followed.

From Judea, too, and Jerusalem, and Idumea, and from beyond Jordan, and from the district of Tyre and Sidon, they came to him a vast multitude, because they heard what he was doing.

The Scribes also who had come down from Jerusalem, said, "He is Beelzebub," and, "He casts out demons by the power of the Prince of the demons."

For he who holds, to him will more be given, and he who holds not, from him will be taken even what he holds."

As he caught sight of Jesus from afar, he ran and knelt before him,

And he gave them leave. And out came the foul spirits and entered the swine; and the drove rushed down from the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand, and were choked in the sea.

Then they began to beg Jesus to depart from their district.

While he was still speaking men came from the house of the warden of the synagogue to tell him, "Your daughter is dead, why trouble the Teacher any further?"

King Herod heard it, for the name of Jesus had become well known, People were saying, "John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and on that account these powers are working in him."

However, many saw them going, and recognized them, and ran together by land from all the neighboring towns, and arrived there first.

One day the Pharisees came to him in a body with some Scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

and when they come from the market-place they do not eat without bathing first. and they have many other customs which they have received and observe, such as the washing of cups and jugs and copper pans.

"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites," he answered. "As it is written, 'This people honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far from me;

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

you exempt him from doing any service for his father or mother.

"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,

because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and passes away, ejected from him?" By these words he pronounced all foods clean.

From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes??22 fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly??23 all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man."

"For that saying of yours, go home," he replied; "the demon has departed from your daughter."

So Jesus took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his finger in the man's ears, and moistened his tongue with saliva;

and if I send them away fasting to their homes, they will faint on the way. Moreover, some of them are from a distance."

And the Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, by way of testing him.

From there Jesus and his disciples went to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he began to question his disciples saying, "Who do people say I am?"

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and brought them by themselves up a high mountain apart from the rest.

As they came down the mountain he strictly forbade them to narrate to any one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead.

This order they faithfully kept, questioning among themselves what "rising again from the dead" meant.

"From childhood," he answered; "and often it has thrown him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us."

but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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

Then many spread their cloaks on the road, and others, soft leafy branches, which they had cut from the fields;

So, addressing the tree, he said, "Let no man ever more eat fruit from you." And the disciples heard it.

and as they (he and his disciples) were passing along in the morning, they saw the fig tree already withered from the root.

The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me!"

Then they began arguing with one another. "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why then did you not believe him?"

On the other hand, if we say, 'From men'!" They were afraid, however, of the people, for every one held that John had been really a prophet.

When they rise from the dead men do not marry, and women are not given in marriage, but they are as the angels are in heaven.

Jesus saw that he had answered with discrimination, and said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that no one ventured to question him.

For those will be days of suffering the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now, and never shall be.

and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Then he will send forth the angels and gather his chosen from the four winds, from uttermost earth to uttermost sky.

"From the fig tree learn now her parable; as soon as ever her branches are full of sap and bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near.

So he went a little farther, and throwing himself upon the ground, he prayed repeatedly that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.

"Abba, Father," he said, "all things are possible with thee. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt."

Simon a Cyrenian, a passer-by, who was coming from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus), they commandeered to carry the cross of Jesus.

Come down from the cross!

The Christ! The King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe." They also who had been crucified with Jesus kept reviling 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 were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,

and when he learned the fact from the army captain he gave the body to Joseph.

and they kept saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?"

So they went out, and ran from the tomb, for they were trembling and amazed; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid??9 Now after his resurrection, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

After this he appeared in another form to two of them as they were walking on their way into the country.

just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word,

it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

"For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, "He shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, "He shall be filled with the Holy Spirit from the hour of his birth,

Then Mary said: "Behold I am Lord's slave. Let it be to me as you have said." Then the angel departed from her.

"For he has regarded the humiliation of his slave, And from this hour all ages will count me blessed.

"he has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted those of low degree.

To deliver us from our enemies, and from the power Of all who hate us.

"Through the heart of mercy of our God, Whereby the Dayspring from on high shall visit us,

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

So John used to say to the crowd of those who were going out to be baptized by him. "You breed of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

heaven opened, and the Holy Spirit, in bodily form like a dove, descended upon him. and a voice came out of heaven, saying. "Thou art my Son, dearly beloved; in thee is my delight."

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, all the time tempted by the devil.

And they all spoke well of him, and marveled at the words of charm that fell from his lips. "Is not this the son of Joseph?" they asked.

He went on board one of the boats which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little way from land. Then he sat down and continued to teach the crowd from the boat.

When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at the knees of Jesus, exclaiming, "Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man!"

and so were Simon's partners, James and John, sons of Zebedee.) But Jesus answered Simon. "Fear not; from this time on, you will be catching men."

One day he was teaching, and near to him were seated Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

"But there is coming a day when the Bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then at that time they will fast."

He also told them a parable. "No one," he said, "tears a piece from a new garment, and patches it upon an old one; otherwise he will tear the new garment, and the patch from the new will not mend the old.

And when day dawned he called his disciples, and from among them he selected twelve, whom also he called Apostles missionaries.

With these he came down till he reached a level place, where there was a great crowd of his disciples and a great many people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. These came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases.

The whole crowd were trying to touch him, because power emanated from him and cured them all.

To him who gives you a blow on the jaw Turn the other jaw also; And from him who is robbing you of your cloak Withhold not your coat also.

Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away.

"And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so as to get as much back.

"Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother's eye.

"You do not gather figs from thorns, and grapes are not plucked from a bramble-bush.

So Jesus started to go with them, but while he was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to him with a message. "Lord do not trouble yourself, for I am not fit that you should come under my roof,

It happened shortly afterwards that he began to go from town to town and village to village, preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God.

The twelve were with him, and certain women whom he had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases. Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons have been driven,

"Those by the wayside are people who hear, but then comes the devil and carries off the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and not be saved.

"Take heed, then, how you listen. for he who has, to him shall it be given, but from him who has not, shall be taken away even what he has."

Then they put in at the country of Gadarenes, which is across from Galilee.

And the whole populace of Gadarenes and the surrounding territory besought Jesus to go away from them; for they were terror-stricken. So he entered a boat and returned.

As he was speaking some one came from the house of the synagogue, saying. "Your daughter is dead! Do not trouble the Master."