Then Jesus *arrived from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John, to be baptized by him.

After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him,

From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them.

Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.

For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.

Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]

You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him.

I say to you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;

Now there was a herd of many swine feeding at a distance from them.

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He *said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.

And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.

And a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak;

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Departing from there, He went into their synagogue.

But Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. Many followed Him, and He healed them all,

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”

The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.

For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will come forth and take out the wicked from among the righteous,

When Jesus had finished these parables, He departed from there.

and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

Now when Jesus heard about John, He withdrew from there in a boat to a secluded place by Himself; and when the people heard of this, they followed Him on foot from the cities.

But the boat was already a long distance from the land, battered by the waves; for the wind was contrary.

Then some Pharisees and scribes *came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon.

And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed.”

But she said, “Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

Departing from there, Jesus went along by the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.

From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day.

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

And He *said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

He *said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”

When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt.

“If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

When Jesus had finished these words, He departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan;

And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”

But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

After laying His hands on them, He departed from there.

Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road.

And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.

The baptism of John was from what source, from heaven or from men?” And they began reasoning among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the people; for they all regard John as a prophet.”

Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.

But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,

No one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

“Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him.

For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

“But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

“Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near;

Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’

“For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.

All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;

From then on he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.

And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you;

But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”

While He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came up accompanied by a large crowd with swords and clubs, who came from the chief priests and elders of the people.

and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

“He saved others; He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel; let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split.

Many women were there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee while ministering to Him.

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.

Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold, I have told you.”

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

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