"Sheathe your sword," Jesus said, "for all who draw the sword will be put to the sword.

Jesus at the same time said to the crowds: "Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me? I have sat teaching day after day in the Temple Courts, and yet you did not arrest me."

Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the High Priest, where the Teachers of the Law and the Councillors had assembled.

Meanwhile the Chief Priests and the whole of the High Council were trying to get such false evidence against Jesus, as would warrant putting him to death,

Then the High Priest stood up, and said to Jesus: "Have you no answer? What is this evidence which these men are giving against you?"

But Jesus remained silent. On this the High Priest said to him: "I adjure you, by the Living God, to tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

"It is true," Jesus answered; "Moreover I tell you all that hereafter you shall 'see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Almighty, and coming on the clouds of the heavens.'"

Peter, meanwhile, was sitting outside in the courtyard; and a maidservant came up to him, and exclaimed: "Why, you were with Jesus the Galilean!"

When he had gone out into the gateway, another maid saw him, and said to those who were there: "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth!"

and Peter remembered the words which Jesus had said-- 'Before a cock has crowed, you will disown me three times'; and he went outside, and wept bitterly.

At daybreak all the Chief Priests and the Councillors of the Nation consulted together against Jesus, to bring about his death.

Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that Jesus was condemned, repented of what he had done, and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the Chief Priests and Councillors.

Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Roman Governor. "Are you the King of the Jews?" asked the Governor. "It is true," answered Jesus.

While charges were being brought against him by the Chief Priests and Councillors, Jesus made no reply.

Yet Jesus made no reply--not even a single word; at which the Governor was greatly astonished.

So, when the people had collected, Pilate said to them: "Which do you wish me to release for you? Barabbas? Or Jesus who is called 'Christ'?"

For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had given Jesus up to him.

But the Chief Priests and the Councillors persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to kill Jesus.

"What then," Pilate asked, "shall I do with Jesus who is called 'Christ'?" "Let him be crucified," they all replied.

The Pilate released Barabbas to them; but Jesus he scourged, and gave him up to be crucified.

After that, the Governor's soldiers took Jesus with them into the Government House, and gathered the whole garrison round him.

they gave him some wine to drink which had been mixed with gall; but after tasting it, Jesus refused to drink it.

Above his head they fixed the accusation against him written out--'THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.'

And about three Jesus called out loudly: "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani"--that is to say, 'O my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?'

But Jesus, uttering another loud cry, gave up his spirit.

And they, leaving their tombs, went, after the resurrection of Jesus, into the Holy City, and appeared to many people.

The Roman Captain, and the men with him who were watching Jesus, on seeing the earthquake and all that was happening, became greatly frightened and exclaimed: "This must indeed have been God's Son!"

There were many women there, watching from a distance, who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had been attending on him.

When evening had fallen, there came a rich man belonging to Ramah, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.

He went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus; upon which Pilate ordered it to be given him.

But the angel, addressing the women, said; "You need not be afraid. I now that it is Jesus, who was crucified, for whom you are looking.

Suddenly Jesus met them. "Welcome!" he said. The women went up to him, and clasped his feet, bowing to the ground before him. Then Jesus said to them:

The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told them to meet him;

Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

The beginning of the Good News about Jesus Christ.

Now about that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

Immediately afterwards the Spirit drove Jesus out into the Wilderness;

After John had been committed to prison, Jesus went to Galilee, proclaiming the Good News of God--

As Jesus was going along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the Sea, for they were fishermen.

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

Jesus at once called them, and they left their father Zebediah in the boat with the crew, and went after him.

And they walked into Capernaum. On the next Sabbath Jesus went into the Synagogue and began to teach.

"What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!"

But Jesus rebuked the spirit: "Be silent! Come out from him."

And the fame of Jesus spread at once in all directions, through the whole neighborhood of Galilee.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying ill with fever, and they at once told Jesus about her.

Jesus went up to her and, grasping her hand, raised her up; the fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

In the evening, after sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who were ill or possessed by demons;

Jesus cured many who were ill with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and would not permit them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

In the morning, long before daylight, Jesus rose and went out, and, going to a lonely spot, there began to pray.

But Jesus said to them: "Let us go somewhere else, into the country towns near, that I may make my proclamation in them also; for that was why I came."

One day a leper came to Jesus and, falling on his knees, begged him for help. "If only you are willing," he said, "you are able to make me clean."

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying as he did so: "I am willing; become clean."

And then Jesus, after sternly warning him, immediately sent him away, and said to him:

The man, however, went away, and began to speak about it publicly, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town, but stayed outside in lonely places; and people came to him from every direction.

Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;

Being, however, unable to get him near to Jesus, owing to the crowd, they removed the roofing below which Jesus was; and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man: "Child, your sins are forgiven."

Jesus, at once intuitively aware that they wee debating with themselves in this way, said to them: "Why are you debating in your minds about this?

Jesus went out again to the Sea; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.

And later on he was in his house at table, and a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples; for many of them were following him.

Hearing this, Jesus said: "It is not those who are in health that need a doctor, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came and asked Jesus: "Why is it that John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?"

Jesus answered: "Can the bridegroom's friends fast, while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.

"Have you never read," answered Jesus, "what David did when he was in want and hungry, he and his companions--

Then Jesus added: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

On another occasion Jesus went in to a Synagogue, where they was a man whose hand was withered.

And they watched Jesus closely, to see if he would cure the man on the Sabbath, so that they might have a charge to bring against him.

"Stand out in the middle," Jesus said to the man with the withered hand;

As they remained silent, Jesus looked round at them in anger, grieving at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man: "Stretch out your hand." The man stretched it out; and his hand had become sound.

Immediately on leaving the Synagogue, the Pharisees and the Herodians united in laying a plot against Jesus, to put him to death.

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the Sea, followed by a great number of people from Galilee.

So Jesus told his disciples to keep a small boat close by, for fear the crowd should crush him.

And Jesus made his way up the hill, and called those whom he wished; and they went to him.

So he appointed the Twelve--Peter (which was the name that Jesus gave to Simon),

Jesus went into a house; and again a crowd collected, so that they were not able even to eat their food.

So Jesus called them to him, and answered them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

There was a crowd sitting round Jesus, and some of them said to him: "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."

Jesus again began to teach by the Sea; and, as an immense crowd was gathering round him, he got into a boat, and sat in it on the Sea, while all the people were on the shore at the water's edge.

And Jesus said: "Let any one who has ears to hear with hear."

And Jesus said to them: "Is a lamp brought to be put under the corn-measure or under the couch, instead of being put on the lampstand?

Take care what you listen to," said Jesus. "The measure you mete will be meted out to you, and more will be added for you.

Jesus also said: "This is what the Kingdom of God is like-- like a man who has scattered seed on the ground,

Jesus also said: "To what can we liken the Kingdom of God?

With many such parables Jesus used to speak to the people of his Message, as far as they were able to receive it;

In the evening of the same day, Jesus said to them: "Let us go across."

Jesus was in the stern asleep upon the cushion; and the disciples roused him and cried: "Teacher! is it nothing to you that we are lost?"

Jesus rose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: "Hush! Be still!" Then the wind dropped, and a great calm followed.

And, as soon as Jesus had got out of the boat, he met a man coming out of the tombs, who was under the power of a foul spirit,

Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed to the ground before him,

Shrieking out in a loud voice: "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? For God's sake do not torment me!"

For Jesus had said: "Come out from the man, you foul spirit."

and he begged Jesus again and again not to send them away out of that country.

And the spirits begged Jesus: "Send us into the pigs, that we may take possession of them."

Jesus gave them leave. They came out, and entered into the pigs; and the drove--about two thousand in number--rushed down the steep slope into the Sea and were drowned in the Sea.

When they came to Jesus, they found the possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind--the very man who had had the 'Legion' in him--and they were awe-struck.

Upon which they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the possessed man begged him to let him stay with him.

But Jesus refused. "Go back to your home, to your own people," he said, "and tell them of all that the Lord has done for you, and how he took pity on you."