Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

But the time will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

Then He told His disciples to have a small boat ready for Him, so the crowd would not crush Him.

And if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand but is finished!

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

Again He began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around Him. So He got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was on the shore facing the sea.

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

But they have no root in themselves; they are short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately stumble.

but the worries of this age, the seduction of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But the ones sown on good ground are those who hear the word, welcome it, and produce a crop: 30, 60, and 100 times what was sown.”

He also said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it to be put on a lampstand?

But as soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

So they left the crowd and took Him along since He was already in the boat. And other boats were with Him.

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?”

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him.

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.

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

But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

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

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

He went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

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.

They were to wear sandals, but not put on an extra shirt.

But others said, “He’s Elijah.” Still others said, “He’s a prophet—like one of the prophets.”

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

So they went away in the boat by themselves to a remote place,

but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

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

Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded,

When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and beached the boat.

As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized Him.

He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

These people honor Me with their lips,
but their heart is far from Me.

For Moses said:

Honor your father and your mother; and
Whoever speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.

But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban’” (that is, a gift committed to the temple),

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.” (As a result, He made all foods clean.)

He got up and departed from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but He could not escape notice.

But she replied to Him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

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

Then He ordered them to tell no one, but the more He would order them, the more they would proclaim it.

and immediately got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!”

Then He left them, got on board the boat again, and went to the other side.

They had forgotten to take bread and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

“But you,” He asked them again, “who do you say that I am?”

Peter answered Him, “You are the Messiah!”

But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s!”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it.

But I tell you that Elijah really has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as it is written about him.”

Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.”

He replied to them, “You unbelieving generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to Me.”

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

But Jesus, taking him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.

And He told them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer [and fasting].”

Then they left that place and made their way through Galilee, but He did not want anyone to know it.

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

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

“Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me, but Him who sent Me.”

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

Salt is good, but if the salt should lose its flavor, how can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves and be at peace with one another.”

But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

and the two will become one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Some people were bringing little children to Him so He might touch them, but His disciples rebuked them.

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

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

But the disciples were astonished at His words. Again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

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.

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to give; instead, it is for those it has been prepared for.”

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.”

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

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 He began to teach them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!”

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

[But if you don’t forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your wrongdoing.]”

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

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Then he sent another, and they killed that one. He also sent many others; they beat some and they killed some.

“But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

Because they knew He had said this parable against them, they were looking for a way to arrest Him, but they were afraid of the crowd. So they left Him and went away.

When they came, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know You are truthful and defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

Should we pay, or should we not pay?”

But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”

David himself says by the Holy Spirit:

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand
until I put Your enemies under Your feet.’

Summoning His disciples, He said to them, “I assure you: This poor widow has put in more than all those giving to the temple treasury.

For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she possessed—all she had to live on.”

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be alarmed; these things must take place, but the end is not yet.

“But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to sanhedrins, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of Me, as a witness to them.

So when they arrest you and hand you over, don’t worry beforehand what you will say. On the contrary, whatever is given to you in that hour—say it. For it isn’t you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.