"You must all drink from it, for this is my blood which ratifies the agreement, and is to be poured out for many people, for the forgiveness of their sins.

Then he said to them, "My heart is almost breaking. You must stay here and keep watch with me."

And he went on a little way, and threw himself on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me. Yet not as I please but as you do!"

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!"

And he left them and went away again and prayed a third time, in the same words as before.

Get up! Let us be going! Look! Here comes my betrayer!"

Just as he was speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

Now the man who betrayed him gave them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Seize him!"

At that same time Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out to arrest me with swords and clubs, as though I were a robber? Day after day I have sat in the Temple preaching, and you never seized me.

The men who had seized Jesus took him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had gathered.

And Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest's house, and he went inside and sat down among the attendants to see how it came out.

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I charge you, on your oath, by the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God."

Jesus said to him, "It is true. But I tell you you will soon see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming upon the clouds of the sky!"

What is your decision?" They answered, "He deserves death."

saying, "Show us you are a prophet, you Christ! Who was it that struck you?"

and said, "I did wrong when I handed an innocent man over to death!" They said, "What is that to us? You see to it yourself."

The high priests gathered up the money, and they said, "It is not legal to put this into the Temple treasury, for it is blood money."

So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burial ground for strangers.

So the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver pieces, the price of the one whose price had been fixed, on whom some of the Israelites had set a price,

and gave them for the Potter's Field as the Lord directed me."

He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!"

And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

As they went out of the city they came upon a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

They put above his head the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews."

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

And about three, Jesus called out loudly, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?"

Some of the bystanders when they heard it said, "The man is calling for Elijah!"

But the others said, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to save him."

On the next day, that is, the day after the Preparation Day, the high priests and Pharisees went in a body to Pilate

Give orders, therefore, to have the tomb closely guarded till the third day, so that his disciples cannot come and steal him, and then tell the people that he is risen from the dead, and that delusion be worse than the other was."

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers, and go and make it as secure as you can."

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

His appearance was like lightning and his clothing was as white as snow.

He is not here, he has risen, as he said he would do. Come and see the place where he was lying.

Now go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and is going back to Galilee before you. You will see him there.' Now I have given you my message."

So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been current among the Jews ever since.

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare your way;

Hark! Someone is shouting in the desert, 'Get the Lord's way ready, Make his paths straight,' "

And this was his message: "After me there is coming one stronger than I am, one whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

And just as he was coming up out of the water he saw the heavens torn open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter into him,

saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

As he was passing along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets in the sea, for they were fishermen.

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"

And they were all so amazed that they discussed it with one another, and said, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching! He gives orders with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the house of Simon and Andrew.

He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring country towns, so that I may preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it.

"Why does this man talk so? This is blasphemy. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Which is easier, to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say to him, "Get up and pick up your mat and walk'?

And as he was passing along he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. And people came and asked him, "Why is it that when John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are keeping the fast, yours are not keeping it?"

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

And no one pours new wine into old wine-skins; or if he does, the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins too. New wine has to be put into fresh skins."

He happened to be passing through the wheat fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick the heads of wheat as they made their way through.

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

How is it that he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the Presentation Loaves, which it is against the law for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions too?"

and so the Son of Man is master even of the Sabbath."

And he said to them, "Is it allowable to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them harm? To save life or kill?" But they made no answer.

He told his disciples to have a boat always ready for his use, to prevent his being crushed by the crowd.

James the son of Zebedee, and John, James's brother (he named them Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder),

If a kingdom is disunited, that kingdom cannot last.

And if a household is disunited, that household cannot last.

And if Satan has rebelled against himself and become disunited, he cannot last but is coming to his end.

But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin."

This was because they said, "He is possessed by a foul spirit."

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

and as he was sowing, some of the seed chanced to fall by the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

What the sower sows is the message.

The ones by the path are those into whose hearts the message falls, and as soon as they hear it Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

It is so too with the ones sown on the rocky ground; they gladly accept the message as soon as they hear it,

It is different with those sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message,

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

The ground of itself is productive, putting forth first a blade, then a head, then fully developed wheat in the head.

But as soon as the crop will let him, the man goes in with his sickle, for the harvest time has come.

"How can we find any comparison," he said, "for the reign of God, or what figure can we use to describe it?

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown in the ground, though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the world,

With many such figures he told them the message, as far as they were able to receive it.

That same day when it was evening he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side."

As soon as he got out of the boat, a man possessed by a foul spirit came out of the burial places near by to meet him.

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us."

And they implored him, "Send us among the pigs, let us go into them."

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to go with him.

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him as he stood on the shore.

and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"

And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease."

Even as he spoke people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why should you trouble the Master any further?"

And he went into the house and said to them, "What is the meaning of all this confusion and crying? The child is not dead, she is asleep."

And he grasped her hand and said to her, "Taleitha, koum!"??hat is to say, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!"

Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?"

And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and among his relatives and at his home."

If any place refuses to receive you or to listen to you, when you leave it shake off the very dust from the soles of your feet as a warning to them."

John said to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."

When it grew late his disciples came up to him and said, "This is a lonely place and it is getting late.

for they all saw him and were terrified. But he immediately spoke to them and said, "Take courage, it is I. Do not be afraid."

As soon as they came ashore, the people recognized Jesus,

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,