And he went with him, and a great crowd followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.

having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.

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

And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

And he allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

And they ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.

And he went out from there and came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

And when the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Are not his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.

King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him."

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.

So Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she could not,

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed, but he heard him gladly.

And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."

So immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

Then the apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught.

But they saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities and they arrived before them.

And when it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is desolate, and it is late in the day.

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and began to scream;

for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up. It is I. Do not be afraid."

When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,

Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they placed the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man."

17 When he had entered into a house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.

He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, immediately came and fell down at his feet.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

But she answered him, "Yes, Sir. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

He took him aside from the crowd, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha." that is, "Be opened."

His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve."

"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."

He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.

He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He made him look up, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

He sent him away to his house, saying, "Do not enter into the village."

They answered him, "John the Baptist, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets."

He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

He called the crowd to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

Immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him.

And one out of the crowd answered him, and said, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."

He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."

They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.

He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.

Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."

Jesus said to him, "'If you can?' All things are possible to him who believes."

When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again."

Having screamed, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."

But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

And when he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise again."

But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, does not receive me, but him who sent me."

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he does not follow us."

But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Crowds came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

In the house, the disciples asked him again about the same matter.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one?God.

And he said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."

They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

Peter began to tell him, "Look, we have left everything, and have followed you."

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. After three days he will rise again."

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."

They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."

They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he shouted all the louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me."

Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up. Get up. He is calling you."

Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rabboni, that I may see again."

Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." And immediately he received his sight, and followed him on the road.

and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has yet sat. Untie him, and bring him.

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."

They went away, and found a colt tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.

Peter, remembering, said to him, "Teacher, look. The fig tree which you cursed has withered away."

Truly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; it will be done for him.

They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,