So he went off and began to proclaim throughout Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; it made everyone astonished.

Now when Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side again, a large crowd gathered round him; so he remained beside the sea.

So Jesus went away with him. Now a large crowd followed him; they pressed round him.

Jesus was at once conscious that some healing virtue had passed from him, so he turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd are pressing round you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

But he kept looking round to see who had done it,

So they reached the president's house, where he saw a tumult of people wailing and making shrill lament;

then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha koum" ??which may be translated, "Little girl, I am telling you to rise."

Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.

So they went out and preached repentance;

John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife."

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing he was a just and holy man; so he protected John ??he was greatly exercised when he listened to him, still he was glad to listen to him.

The daughter of Herodias went in and danced to them, and Herod and his guests were so delighted that the king said to the girl, "Ask anything you like and I will give you it."

So she went out and said to her mother, "What am I to ask?" "John the Baptizer's head," she answered.

Then she hurried in at once and asked the king, saying, "I want you to give me this very moment John the Baptist's head on a dish."

so the king at once sent one of the guard with orders to bring his head. The man went and beheaded him in the prison,

So they went away privately in the boat to a lonely spot.

However a number of people who saw them start and recognized them, got to the place before them by hurrying there on foot from all the towns.

So when Jesus disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them, as they were like sheep without a shepherd, he proceeded to teach them at length.

He said, "How many loaves have you got? Go and see." When they found out they told him, "Five, and two fish."

so they arranged themselves in groups of a hundred and of fifty;

Now when evening came the boat was [far out] in the middle of the sea, and he was on the land alone;

but when he saw them buffeted as they rowed (for the wind was against them) he went to them about the fourth watch of the night walking on the sea. He meant to pass them,

but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost and shrieked aloud ??50 for they all saw him and were terrified. Then he spoke to them at once; "Courage," he said, "it is I, have no fear."

Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God),

he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother.

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

He said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first of all; it is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

She answered him, "No, sir, but under the table the dogs do pick up the children's crumbs."

So she went home and found the child lying in bed and the daemon gone from her.

He left the territory of Tyre again and passed through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, crossing the territory of Decapolis.

So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva,

and looking up to heaven with a sigh he said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means, Open).

So he ordered the crowd to recline on the ground, and taking the seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve out. They served them out to the crowd,

So the people ate and were satisfied, and they picked up seven baskets of fragments which were left over.

So he cautioned them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart?

You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear?

So he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village; then, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

He began to see and said, "I can make out people, for I see them as large as trees, moving."

At this he laid his hands on his eyes once more, and the man stared in front of him; he was quite restored and saw everything distinctly.

Then Jesus and his disciples set off for the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road he inquired of his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

"John the Baptist," they told him, "though some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the prophets."

So he inquired of them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Christ."

but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

I tell you truly," he said, to them, "there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the coming of God's Reign with power."

So Peter addressed Jesus, saying, "Rabbi, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"

(for he did not know what to say, they were so terrified).

And suddenly looking round they saw no one there except Jesus all alone beside them.

So they put this question to him, "Why do the [Pharisees and] scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

When they reached the disciples they saw a large crowd round them, and some scribes arguing with them.

and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, he checked the unclean spirit. "Deaf and dumb spirit," he said, "leave him, I command you, and never enter him again."

And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead";

So he sat down and called the twelve. "If anyone wants to be first," he said to them, "he must be last of all and the servant of all."

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him."

And whoever is a hindrance to one of these little ones who believe, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung round his neck and be thrown into the sea.

If your eye is a hindrance to you, tear it out: better get into God's Realm with one eye, than keep your two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,

So he replied, "What did Moses lay down for you?"

and the pair shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

but Jesus was angry when he saw this, and he said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not stop them: the Realm of God belongs to such as these.

The disciples were amazed at what he said; so he repeated, "My sons, how difficult it is [for those who rely on money] to get into the Realm of God!

It is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Realm of God."

They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself.

So he said, "What do you want me to do for you?"

so Jesus called them and said, "You know the so-called rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men overbear them:

not so with you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

heard it was Jesus of Nazaret. So he started to shout, "Son of David! Jesus! have pity on me."

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back immediately."

So they answered as Jesus had told them, and the men allowed them to go.

and both those in front and those who followed shouted, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!

Blessed be the Reign to come, our father David's reign. Hosanna in high heaven!"

and noticing a fig tree in leaf some distance away he went to see if he could find anything on it; but when he reached it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

Then he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you after this!" The disciples heard him say it.

I tell you truly, whoever says to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' and has not a doubt in his mind but believes that what he says will happen, he will have it done.

So I tell you, whatever you pray for and ask, believe you have got it and you shall have it.

Also, whenever you stand up to pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

Now they argued to themselves, "[What are we to say?] If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why did you not believe him.'

No, let us say, From men" ??but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet.

So they replied to Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do."

He sent another, but they killed him. And so they treated many others; some they flogged and some they killed.

So they took and killed him, and threw him outside the vineyard.

Then they tried to get hold of him, but they were afraid of the multitude. They knew he had meant the parable for them. So they left him and went away.

Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

So they brought one. He said, "Whose likeness, whose inscription is this?" "Caesar's," they said.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

the second took her and died without leaving any offspring: so did the third:

Also, to love him with the whole heart, with the whole understanding, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself ??that is far more than all holocausts and sacrifices."

And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

Jesus said to him, "You see these great buildings? Not a stone shall be left on another, without being torn down."

So Jesus began: "Take care that no one misleads you: ??6 many will come in my name saying, 'I am he,' and mislead many.

Now when they carry you off to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; say whatever comes to your lips at the moment, for he who speaks is not you but the holy Spirit.

But whenever you see the appalling Horror standing where he has no right to stand (let the reader note this), then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills;

for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now ??no and never shall be.

Then they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

so, whenever you see this happen, you may be sure He is at hand, at the very door.