Then Judas, who was betraying him, answered, "Rabbi, is it I?" He said to him, "You have said it."

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of me this night; for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."

Peter said to him, "Even if I have to die with you, I will not deny you." And so said all the disciples.

Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."

Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me."

Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, "So, could you not watch with me one hour?

Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

And at once he went up to Jesus and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed him.

Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.

But Peter followed him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the guards to see the end.

and said, "This fellow said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

And the high priest stood up and said, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?"

But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God: tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."

Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. But I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard his blasphemy.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him and said, "You also were with Jesus of Galilee."

And when he went out to the gateway, another girl saw him and said to the people there, "This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth."

After a little while those who stood by came up and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you."

And Peter remembered the word Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." So he went out and wept bitterly.

saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!"

But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are the money of blood."

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,

Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" So Jesus said to him, "It is as you say."

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?"

So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?"

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered greatly today in a dream because of him."

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

Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!"

And he said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!"

He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

When some of those standing there heard this, they said, "This man is calling Elijah."

The rest said, "Let him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to save him."

So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were terrified, and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"

and said, "Sir, we remember how that deceiver said, while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise again.'

Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how."

And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.

But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

He is not here; for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.

And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Hail!" And they came to him and took hold of his feet and worshipped him.

Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee; and there they will see me."

and said, "Tell them, 'His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.'

And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

And Jesus said to them, "Come follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men."

Now at evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed.

and when they found him, they said to him, "Everyone is looking for you."

And he said to them, "Let us go on to the next towns, so I may preach there also; for that is why I have come."

And Jesus, moved with compassion, put out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be clean."

and he said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."

And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, he said to them, "Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?

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

And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out in the sight of them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and followed him.

And as he sat at table in Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were sitting with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him.

And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

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

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

And Jesus said to them, "Can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"

But he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those who were with him:

And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come here."

Then he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent.

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebub, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons."

So he called them to himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?

because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

And a crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."

And he looked at those who sat in a circle around him, and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Again he began to teach by the sea. and a very large crowd gathered around him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

Then he taught them many things by parables, and said to them in his teaching:

And as he sowed the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

But other seed fell on good soil and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced thirtyfold, sixty, and a hundred."

And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those outside everything is in parables;

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand?

Then he said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you; and more will be given you.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,

and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.

And he said, "With what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?

It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is the smallest of all seeds in the earth;

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side."

But he was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care if we perish?"

Then he rose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.

He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? Have you no faith?"

And they were filled with awe, and said to one another, "Who is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him!"

They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.

And crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, do not torment me."

For he had said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."

And when Jesus had crossed over again by the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea.

For she said, "If I touch even his clothes, I shall be made well."

And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"