greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly??23 all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."

but a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit immediately heard about him and came and threw herself at his feet.

And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."

The Pharisees came out and began a discussion with him, testing him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.

And they came to Bethsaida. And people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.

And he said to them, "I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the reign of God come in its might."

And a cloud came and overshadowed them, and from the cloud came a voice, "This is my Son, my Beloved. Listen to him,"

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, and reforms everything, and does not the Scripture say of the Son of Man that he will suffer much and be refused?

Why, I tell you, not only has Elijah come, but people have treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.

Some Pharisees came up, and in order to test him asked him whether a man should be allowed to divorce his wife.

When Jesus saw it, he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as they.

As he was starting again on his journey, a man came running up to him, and knelt at his feet and asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

And Zebedee's two sons, James and John, came up to him and said, "Master, we want you to do for us whatever we ask."

For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."

And they came to Jericho. As he was leaving the town with his disciples and a great crowd, Timaeus' son Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting at the roadside.

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

And he came into Jerusalem and into the Temple, and looked it all over; then, as it was already late, he went out with the Twelve to Bethany.

So when evening came, he and his disciples used to go out of the city.

Then they went into Jerusalem again. And as Jesus was walking about in the Temple, the high priests, scribes, and elders came up

But the tenants said to one another, 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and the property will belong to us!'

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come back and put the tenants to death and give the vineyard to others.

This came from the Lord And seems marvelous to us'?"

And they came up and said to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth regardless of the consequences, for you are not guided by personal considerations, but teach the way of God with sincerity. Is it right to pay the poll tax to the emperor or not?

Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question.

One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"

A poor widow came up and dropped in two little copper coins which make a cent.

Many will come under my name and say 'I am he,' and many will be misled by them.

But when you hear of wars and rumors of war, you must not be alarmed. They have to come, but it is not yet the end.

So you must be on the watch, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening or at midnight or toward daybreak or early in the morning??36 for fear he should come unexpectedly and find you asleep.

Jesus was in Bethany, at the house of Simon the leper, and as he was at table, a woman came in, with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, very expensive; she broke the flask and poured the perfume on his head.

When it was evening he came with the Twelve.

They came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

When he came back he found them asleep again, for they could hardly keep their eyes open; and they did not know what answer to make to him.

When he came back for the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Enough of this! The time has come. See! the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of wicked men.

Just at that moment, while he was still speaking, Judas, who was one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a crowd of men with swords and clubs, from the high priests, scribes, and elders.

So when he came he went straight up to Jesus and said, "Master!" and kissed him affectionately.

And Jesus spoke and said to them, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber?

They took Jesus away to the high priest, and all the high priests, elders, and scribes came together.

Then the high priest got up and came forward into the center and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What about their evidence against you?"

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's maids came up,

And a crowd of people came up and started to ask him for the usual favor.

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

One man ran off and soaked a sponge in common wine, and put it on the end of a stick and held it up to him to drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah does come to take him down!"

who used to accompany him and wait on him when he was in Galilee??esides many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. For his part, he kept making signs to them, and remained dumb.

The angel answered, "The holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason your child will be called holy, and the Son of God.

Who am I, To have the mother of my Lord come to me?

Now the time came for Elizabeth's child to be born, and she gave birth to a son.

Her neighbors and relatives heard of the great mercy the Lord had shown her, and they came and congratulated her.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

While they were there, the time came for her child to be born,

When the angels left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Come! Let us go over to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, that the Lord has told us of!"

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

He said to them, "How did you come to look for me? Did you not know that I must be at my Father's house?"

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from God came to Zechariah's son John in the desert.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Master, what ought we to do?"

and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

And he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee. And he taught them on the Sabbath,

"Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are! You are God's Holy One!"

Jesus reproved him and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" And the demon threw the man down in the midst of them, and came out of him, without doing him any harm.

And they were all amazed and said to one another, "What is the meaning of this teaching? For he gives orders authoritatively and effectually to the foul spirits, and they come out."

And demons came out of many people, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he reproved them and forbade them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.

And they signaled to their comrades in the other boat to come and help them. And they came, and they filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

Some men came up carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus.

I have not come to invite the pious but the irreligious to repentance!"

But other days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, in those days they will fast."

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose twelve of them whom he named apostles:

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, to ask him to come and save his slave's life.

That is why I did not think I was fit to come to you. But simply say the word, and have my servant cured.

For I am myself under the orders of others, and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

As he came up to the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out; he was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A crowd of the townspeople was with her.

and he called two of them to him, and sent them to the Master to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

And the men went to him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?' "

"For when John the Baptist came, he did not eat any bread or drink any wine, and you said, 'He has a demon!'

Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!'

and came and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair, and kissed them, and put the perfume on them.

And turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but from the moment I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet.

"Nobody lights a lamp and then covers it with a dish or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

For there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, nor kept secret that shall not be known and come to light.

His mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him, on account of the crowd.

And the word came to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside; they want to see you."

So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril.

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

And a man named Jairus came up??e was leader of the synagogue??nd he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house,

came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, and the hemorrhage stopped at once.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

and some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

Then the apostles came back and told Jesus what they had done. And he took them and quietly retired to a town called Bethsaida.