and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God."

But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you are talking about."

saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas."

But he said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they shouted all the louder, saying, "Let him be crucified."

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it."

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

and said to him, "See you say nothing to anyone, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

But he went out, and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.

But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

"Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins", he said to the paralytic,

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."

And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.

And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"?

And he said to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

And they have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

Without a parable he did not speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

And he did not allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your own, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

But Jesus, overhearing the message spoken, said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid, only believe."

And when he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.

And they ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.

but to wear sandals, and not to put on two tunics.

But others said, "He is Elijah." Others said, "He is a prophet, like one of the prophets."

But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen."

So Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she could not,

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed, but he heard him gladly.

And the king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he did not wish to refuse her.

But they saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities and they arrived before them.

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and began to scream;

for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up. It is I. Do not be afraid."

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

He said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man."

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, cleansing all the foods?"

From there he arose, and went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and did not want anyone to know it, but he could not escape notice.

But he said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

But she answered him, "Yes, Sir. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

They answered him, "John the Baptist, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets."

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Messiah."

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan. For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."

But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, does not receive me, but him who sent me."

But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

But Jesus said, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

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

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me. Do not forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it to enter into the Kingdom of God.

Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

But many who are first will be last; and the last first."

But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he shouted all the louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me."

Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

He taught, saying to them, "Is not it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers."

Truly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; it will be done for him.

But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions.

But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

They tried to seize him, but they feared the crowd; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and do not defer to anyone; for you are not partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Should we pay, or should we not pay?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

But about the dead, that they are raised; have you not read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."

The scribe said to him, "Truly, Teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."

"When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled. Such things must happen, but the end is not yet.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.