Then he went to the disciples and said to them, "Still asleep? still resting? The hour is near, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, " Whoever I kiss, that is the man."

So he went up at once to Jesus; "Hail, rabbi!" he said, and kissed him.

Jesus said, "My man, do your errand." Then they laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; all who draw the sword shall die by the sword.

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.

Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and when he got inside he sat down beside the attendants to see the end.

and said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.'"

So the high priest rose and said to him, "Have you no reply to make? What of this evidence against you?"

Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A maidservant came up and said to him, "You were with Jesus the Galilean too."

But he denied it before them all; "I do not know what you mean," he said.

When he went out to the gateway another maidservant noticed him and said to those who were there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene."

After a little the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them too. Why, your accent betrays you!"

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said, that 'before the cock crows you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly.

saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!"

The high priests took the money and said, "It would be wrong to put this into the treasury, for it is the price of blood."

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear all their evidence against you?"

so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Who do you want released? Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?"

The governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" "Bar-Abbas," they said.

Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"

"Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"

plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"

and sat down there to keep watch over him.

"He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

His trust is in God? Let God deliver him now if he cares for him! He said he was the Son of God!"

On hearing this some of the bystanders said, "He is calling for Elijah."

But the others said, "Stop, let us see if Elijah does come to save him!" [Seizing a lance, another pricked his side, and out came water and blood.]

Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

and said, "We remember, sir, that when this impostor was alive he said, 'I will rise after three days.'

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers, go and make it as secure as you can."

But a great earthquake took place; an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled away the boulder and sat on it.

then Jesus said to them, "Have no fear! Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee; they shall see me there."

Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;

then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'

he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel."

so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."

But Jesus checked it; "Be quiet," he said, "come out of him."

Now when evening came, when the sun set, they brought him all who were ill or possessed by daemons ??33 indeed the whole town was gathered at the door ??34 and he cured many who were ill with various diseases and cast out many daemons; but as the daemons knew him he would not let them say anything.

but he said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the adjoining country-towns, so that I may preach there as well; that is why I came out here."

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

But to let you see the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins" ??he said to the paralytic,

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

So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "Those who are strong have no need of a doctor, but those who are ill: I have not come to call just men but sinners."

Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding fast while the bridegroom is beside them? As long as they have the bridegroom beside them they cannot fast.

The Pharisees said to him, "Look at what they are doing on the sabbath! That is not allowed."

He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and his men?

And he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath:

He said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise and come forward;"

Jerusalem, Idumaea, the other side of the Jordan, and the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon, as they had heard of his doings.

And when his family heard this, they set out to get hold of him, for what they said was, "He is out of his mind."

But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

So he called them and said to them by way of parable, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

(This was because they said, "He has an unclean spirit.")

And glancing at those who were sitting round him in a circle he said, "There are my mother and my brothers!

Once more he proceeded to teach by the seaside, and a crowd gathered round him greater than ever, so he entered a boat on the sea and sat down, while all the crowd stayed on shore.

He gave them many lessons in parables, and said to them in the course of his teaching:

and as he sowed it chanced that some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and ate it up;

some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,

some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so it bore no crop;

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

and he said to them: "The open secret of the Realm of God is granted to you, but these outsiders get everything by way of parables,

And he said to them, "You do not understand this parable? Then how are you to understand the other parables?

As for those 'on the road,' when the seed is sown there ??as soon as they hear it, Satan at once comes and carries off the word sown within them.

Another set are those who are sown 'among thorns'; they listen to the word,

He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be placed under a bowl or a bed? Is it not to be placed upon the stand?

Also he said to them, "Take care what you hear; the measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to yourselves, and you will receive extra.

And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth;

he sleeps at night and rises by day, and the seed sprouts and shoots up ??he knows not how.

He said also, "To what can we compare the Realm of God? how are we to put it in a parable?

It is like a grain of mustard-seed ??less than any seed on earth when it is sown on earth;

That same day when evening came he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side;"

Then he said to them, "Why are you afraid like this? Have you no faith yet?"

But they were overawed and said to each other, "Whatever can he be, when the very wind and sea obey him?"

Then they reached the opposite side of the sea, the country of the Gerasenes.

On catching sight of Jesus from afar he ran and knelt before him,

(For he had said, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.")

Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, "there is a host of us."

but he said, "Go home to your own people, and report to them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

Now when Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side again, a large crowd gathered round him; so he remained beside the sea.

A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet

with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"

"if I can touch even his clothes," she said to herself, "I will recover."

His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd are pressing round you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be free from your complaint."

then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha koum" ??which may be translated, "Little girl, I am telling you to rise."

When the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and the large audience was astounded. "Where did he get all this?" they said. "What is the meaning of this wisdom he is endowed with? And these miracles, too, that his hands perform!

Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and among his kinsfolk and in his home."

they were to wear sandals, but not to put on two shirts, he said.

Also, he told them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there till you leave the place.

Now this came to the hearing of king Herod, for the name of Jesus had become well known; people said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, that is why miraculous powers are working through him;"

others said, "It is Elijah," others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

But when Herod heard of it he said, "John has risen, the John I beheaded."

The daughter of Herodias went in and danced to them, and Herod and his guests were so delighted that the king said to the girl, "Ask anything you like and I will give you it."

So she went out and said to her mother, "What am I to ask?" "John the Baptizer's head," she answered.

And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat).

He replied, "Give them some food, yourselves." They said, "Are we to go and buy ten pounds' worth of food and give them that to eat?"

He said, "How many loaves have you got? Go and see." When they found out they told him, "Five, and two fish."