Jesus told them, "Yes! Haven't you ever read, "From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise'?" Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

Jesus answered them, "I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, "Be removed and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen.

"Then he told his servants, "The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

"When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

"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."

"But you are not to be called "Rabbi,' because you have only one teacher, and all of you are brothers.

You blind guides! You filter out a gnat, yet swallow a camel!

I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, "How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

"So when you see the destructive desecration, mentioned by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader take note),

Anyone who's on the housetop must not come down to get what is in his house,

and anyone who's in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Pray that it may not be in winter or on a Sabbath when you flee,

"Immediately after the troubles of those days, "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.'

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father,

But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known when during the night the thief would be coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

So you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you are not expecting."

But they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

You'll always have the destitute with you, but you'll not always have me.

Feeling deeply distressed, each one began to ask him, "Surely I am not the one, Lord?"

Then Judas, who was going to betray him, asked, "Rabbi, I'm not the one, am I?" Jesus told him, "You have said so."

Then Jesus told them, "All of you will turn against me this very night, because it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, before a rooster crows this very night, you will deny me three times."

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, "O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

Then he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open.

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Listen! You yourselves have just heard the blasphemy!

The high priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put this into the Temple treasury, because it is blood money."

But Jesus did not reply at all, so that the governor was very surprised.

He is not here. He has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

They said, "Say that Jesus' disciples came at night and stole him while you were sleeping.

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were throwing a net into the sea because they were fishermen.

The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.

When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?"

He asked them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?"

Then he told them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

He did not tell them anything without using a parable, though he explained everything to his disciples in private.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.

He kept screaming night and day among the tombs and on the mountainsides, and kept cutting himself with stones.

He told him, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us." He kept pleading with Jesus not to send them out of that region.

Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all, but rather grew worse.

But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.

They could wear sandals but not take along an extra shirt.

If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

John had been telling Herod, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

Jesus ordered the people not to tell anyone, but the more he kept ordering them, the more they kept spreading the news.

Then he told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God arrive with power."

Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah!" Jesus sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan, because you're not thinking God's thoughts, but human thoughts!"

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

"Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."

Whoever is not against us is for us.

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans it's impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God."

who will not receive a hundred times as much here in this world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, along with persecution as well as eternal life in the age to come.

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

because even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."

Then he began to teach them: "It is written, is it not, "My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you've turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

But if you do not forgive, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins."

They came and told him, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or shouldn't we?"

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

When Jesus saw how wisely the man answered, he told him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one dared to ask him another question.

"Do you see these large buildings?" Jesus responded. "Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down."

"So when you see the destructive desecration standing where it should not be (let the reader take note), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,

and the one who's in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Pray that it may not be in winter,

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

If the Lord had not shortened those days, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen, he has shortened those days.

"But after the suffering of those days, "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

I tell all of you with certainty, this generation will not disappear until all these things take place.

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today, this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you'll deny me three times."

He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

Again he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open. They didn't even know what they should say to him.

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"

Then the high priest tore his clothes. "Why do we still need witnesses?" he asked.

But he told them, "Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him.

Finally he appeared to his eleven disciples while they were eating. He rebuked them for their unbelief and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had risen.

But because you did not believe my announcement, which will be fulfilled at its proper time, you will become silent and unable to speak until the day this happens."

Mary asked the angel, "How can this happen, since I have not had relations with a man?"

but his mother said, "Absolutely not! He must be named John."

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's Messiah.

and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

When the days of the festival were over, they left for home. The young man Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching desperately for him.

But they did not understand what he told them.

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into a fire."

John replied to all of them, "I'm baptizing you with water, but one is coming who is more powerful than I, and I'm not worthy to untie his sandal straps. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Jesus answered him, "It is written, "One must not live on bread alone, but on every word of God.'"