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."

But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children's crumbs."

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

Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread along, but they had one loaf with them in the boat.

Do you have eyes, but fail to see? Do you have ears, but fail to hear? Don't you remember?

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

Then he began to ask them, "But who do you say I am?"

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but after three days he would rise again.

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!"

because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

Suddenly, as they looked around, they saw no one with them but Jesus alone.

They kept the matter to themselves but argued about what "rising from the dead" meant.

But I tell you that Elijah has come, yet people treated him just as they pleased, as it is written about him."

Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn't have the power."

The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

But Jesus took his hand and helped him up, and he stood up.

because he was teaching his disciples, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. They will kill him, but after being dead for three days he will be raised."

But they kept silent, because they had argued on the road with one another about who was the greatest.

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

But Jesus said, "Don't stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name can slander me soon afterwards.

Salt is good. But if salt loses its taste, how can you restore its flavor? Keep on having salt among yourselves, and live in peace with one another."

But Jesus told them, "It was because of your hardness of heart that he wrote this command for you.

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

and the two will become one flesh.' So they're no longer two, but one flesh.

Some people were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

The disciples were startled by these words, but Jesus told them again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in their wealth to get into the kingdom of God!

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

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

and they'll make fun of him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him. But after three days he'll be raised."

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

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."

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."

Many people sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

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!"

I tell all of you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

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

But if we say, "From humans'"?" They were afraid of the crowd, because everyone really thought John was a prophet.

But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

But those farmers told one another, "This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

They were trying to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. Realizing that he had spoken this parable against them, they left him alone and went away.

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, he should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

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

because all of them contributed out of their surplus, but out of her poverty she has given everything she had to live on."

But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, stop being alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,

But first, the gospel must be proclaimed to all nations.

When they take you away and hand you over for trial, don't worry ahead of time about what you will say. Instead, say whatever is given to you at that time, because it won't be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."

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,

Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear."

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

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me,

because you'll always have the destitute with you and can help them whenever you want, but you won't always have me.

For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

But Peter told him, "Even if everyone else turns against you, I certainly won't."

But Peter kept saying emphatically, "Even if I have to die with you, I'll never deny you!" And all the others kept saying the same thing.

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."

All of you must stay awake and pray that you won't be tempted. The spirit is indeed willing, but the body is weak."

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Day after day I was with you in the Temple teaching, yet you didn't arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."

A certain young man, who was wearing nothing but a linen sheet, was following Jesus. When the men grabbed him,

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.

But even on this point their testimony didn't agree.

But he kept silent and didn't answer at all. The high priest asked him again, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

But he denied it, saying, "I don't know or even understand what you're talking about!" Then he went out into the entryway. Just then a rooster crowed.

But since Jesus no longer answered, Pilate was astonished.

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Barabbas for them instead.

"Why?" Pilate asked them. "What has he done wrong?" But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!"

So Pilate, wanting to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them, but he had Jesus whipped and handed over to be crucified.

They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he wouldn't accept it.

In the same way, the high priests, along with the scribes, were also making fun of him among themselves. They kept saying, "He saved others, but can't save himself!

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.

But go and tell his disciples especially Peter that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever doesn't believe will be condemned.

But the angel told him, "Stop being afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to name him John.

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."

But when he did come out, he was unable to speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept motioning to them but remained unable to speak.

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

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.

But they did not understand what he told them.

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.

His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean up his threshing floor. He'll gather the grain into his barn, but he'll burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."

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

But Jesus answered him, "It is written, "You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'"

But he walked right through the middle of them and went away.

But Jesus rebuked him. "Be quiet," he said, "and come out of him!" At this, the demon threw the man down in the middle of the synagogue and came out of him without hurting him.

Even demons came out of many people, screaming, "You are the Son of God!" But Jesus rebuked them and ordered them not to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.

But he told them, "I have to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God in other cities, because I was sent to do that also."

He saw two boats lying on the shore, but the fishermen had stepped out of them and were washing their nets.

Simon answered, "Master, we have worked hard all night and caught nothing. But if you say so, I'll lower the nets."

But the news about Jesus spread even more, and many crowds began gathering to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to argue among themselves, saying, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But so you'll know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"." he told the paralyzed man, "I say to you: Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"

But Jesus answered them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick people do.

I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners, to repentance."

Then they told him, "John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do those of the Pharisees. But your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

But Jesus told them, "You can't force the wedding guests to fast while the groom is still with them, can you?

But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and at that time they will fast."