A fierce windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.

But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die?”

He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore—even with chains—

because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had snapped off the chains and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

And always, night and day, he was crying out among the tombs and in the mountains and cutting himself with stones.

Now a large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside.

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging Him to be with Him.

When Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him while He was by the sea.

So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd was following and pressing against Him.

had endured much under many doctors. She had spent everything she had and was not helped at all. On the contrary, she became worse.

Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was cured of her affliction.

So He was looking around to see who had done this.

While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?”

But when Jesus overheard what was said, He told the synagogue leader, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe.”

They started laughing at Him, but He put them all outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and those who were with Him, and entered the place where the child was.

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk. (She was 12 years old.) At this they were utterly astounded.

So He was not able to do any miracles there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

And He was amazed at their unbelief.

Now He was going around the villages in a circuit, teaching.

because Herod was in awe of John and was protecting him, knowing he was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him he would be very disturbed, yet would hear him gladly.

Though the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests he did not want to refuse her.

When it was already late, His disciples approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, and it is already late!

Everyone ate and was filled.

When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land.

He saw them being battered as they rowed, because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.

When they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out;

They hurried throughout that vicinity and began to carry the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was.

Wherever He would go, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch just the tassel of His robe. And everyone who touched it was made well.

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

Now the woman was Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

Immediately his ears were opened, his speech difficulty was removed, and he began to speak clearly.

In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He summoned the disciples and said to them,

Again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and he saw distinctly. He was cured and could see everything clearly.

He was openly talking about this. So Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up on a high mountain by themselves to be alone. He was transformed in front of them,

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly coming together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

Then they came to Capernaum. When He was in the house, He asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”

But they were silent, because on the way they had been arguing with one another about who was the greatest.

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.”

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me. Don’t stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

But he was stunned at this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.

They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. They were astonished, but those who followed Him were afraid. Taking the Twelve aside again, He began to tell them the things that would happen to Him.

They came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, “Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me!”

Many people told him to keep quiet, but he was crying out all the more, “Have mercy on me, Son of David!”

And He went into Jerusalem and into the temple complex. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

The next day when they came out from Bethany, He was hungry.

After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

Then the chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to destroy Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished by His teaching.

They came again to Jerusalem. As He was walking in the temple complex, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came

Was John’s baptism from heaven or from men? Answer Me.”

But if we say, ‘From men’”—they were afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought that John was a genuine prophet.

David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?” And the large crowd was listening to Him with delight.

And a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little.

As He was going out of the temple complex, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, look! What massive stones! What impressive buildings!”

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the temple complex, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.

While He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, suddenly arrived. With him was a mob, with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.

Every day I was among you, teaching in the temple complex, and you didn’t arrest Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”

Now a certain young man, having a linen cloth wrapped around his naked body, was following Him. They caught hold of him,

Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the high priest’s courtyard. He was sitting with the temple police, warming himself by the fire.

While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the high priest’s servants came.

As soon as it was morning, the chief priests had a meeting with the elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin. After tying Jesus up, they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate.

But Jesus still did not answer anything, so Pilate was amazed.

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.

There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.

The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.

For he knew it was because of envy that the chief priests had handed Him over.

They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’ cross. He was Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus.

Now it was nine in the morning when they crucified Him.

The inscription of the charge written against Him was:

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

[So the Scripture was fulfilled that says: And He was counted among outlaws.]

When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Then the curtain of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom.

When the centurion, who was standing opposite Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, “This man really was God’s Son!”

When He was in Galilee, they would follow Him and help Him. Many other women had come up with Him to Jerusalem.

When it was already evening, because it was preparation day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went in to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.

Pilate was surprised that He was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether He had already died.

Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where He was placed.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so they could go and anoint Him.

Looking up, they observed that the stone—which was very large—had been rolled away.

“Don’t be alarmed,” he told them. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been resurrected! He is not here! See the place where they put Him.

Yet, when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe it.

Then after speaking to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

When his division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

it happened that he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense.

At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and overcome with fear.

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and tell you this good news.

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

But she was deeply troubled by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be.

And consider your relative Elizabeth—even she has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called childless.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped inside her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.