because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

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

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

They began to beg him to depart from their region.

As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

He went with him, and a great multitude 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.

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

His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude 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.

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

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 lying.

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

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?

Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't 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 Baptizer 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.

Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't,

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

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."

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,

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

They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, 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 cried out;

for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don't 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 laid 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 don't your disciples 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.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

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

He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, 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, Lord. 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 multitude, 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.

He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."

They told him, "John the Baptizer, 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 multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever 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 multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him.

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 believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

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

Having cried out, 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.

When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we 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, on the third day he will rise again."

But they didn't 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, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."

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

But Jesus said, "Don't 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. Multitudes 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, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

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

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, "Behold, we have left all, 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.

"Behold, 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. On the third day he will rise again."