and then sleeping at night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up, without his knowing it.

"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,

He said nothing to them except in figures, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

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

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him up and said to him, "Master, does it make no difference to you that we are sinking?"

Then he awoke and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Silence!" And the wind went down and there was a great calm.

And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"

And they were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For even the wind and the sea obey him."

So they reached the other side of the sea, and landed in the region of Gerasa.

And catching sight of Jesus in the distance he ran up and made obeisance to him

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

And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

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

for she said, "If I can only touch his clothes, I shall get well."

Jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him, and he turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

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

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?"

But Jesus paid no attention to what they said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid, just have faith."

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!"

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

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."

And he said to them, "Whenever you go to stay at a house, remain in it till you leave that place.

But others said he was Elijah, and still others that he was a prophet of the old prophetic kind.

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

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

Herodias' own daughter came in and danced for them. And Herod and his guests were delighted, and the king said to the girl,

When she had left the room she said to her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" But she said, "The head of John the baptizer."

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to some quiet place, and rest a little while." For people were coming and going in large numbers, and they had no time even for meals.

So they set off by themselves in their boat for a secluded place.

So when he got out of the boat, he found a great crowd gathered, and his heart was touched at the sight of them, because they were like sheep that have no shepherd; and he proceeded to teach them a great deal.

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

But he answered, "Give them food yourselves." They said to him, "Can we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

But he said to them, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." They looked, and told him. "Five, and two fish."

And he directed them all to sit down in parties on the fresh grass.

He immediately had his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he was dismissing the crowd.

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."

They crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret and moored the boat.

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.

"How skilful you are," he said to them, "in nullifying what God has commanded in order to observe what has been handed down to you.

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

and so you nullify what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many such practices."

He called the people to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this.

And he said to them, "Have not even you any understanding then? Do you not see that nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him,

He said to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

He said to her, "If you can say that, go home; the demon has left your daughter."

And he looked up to heaven and sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"??hich means "Open."

And people were utterly amazed, and said, "How well he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

In those days when a great crowd had gathered again and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,

"How many loaves have you?" he asked. "Seven," they said.

And he sighed deeply and said, "Why do the men of this day ask for a sign? I tell you, no sign will be given them."

And he left them and got into the boat again and crossed to the other side.

And he noticed it and said to them, "Why do you discuss your being without bread? Do you not yet see nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

how many baskets of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for those five thousand men?" They said to him, "Twelve."

"When I broke the seven loaves in pieces for the four thousand, how many baskets of pieces did you pick up?" They said to him, "Seven."

He said to them, "Do you not understand yet?"

He looked up and said, "I can see people, for they look to me like trees, only they are moving about."

And he sent him home and said to him, "Do not even go into the village."

Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

They said to him, "John the Baptist; others say Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets."

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men."

And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

And he said to them, "I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the reign of God come in its might."

Then Peter spoke, and said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

And they did not forget what he said, but discussed with one another what he meant by the rising from the dead.

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, and reforms everything, and does not the Scripture say of the Son of Man that he will suffer much and be refused?

He answered them and said, "O you unbelieving people, how long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"

Jesus asked the boy's father, "How long has he been like this?" And he said,

Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!"

Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd was rapidly gathering, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never enter him again!"

And it gave a cry and convulsed him terribly, and went out of him. And the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

He said to them, "This kind of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

And he sat down and called the Twelve in, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

And he took a child and made him stand among them, and he put his arms around him, and said to them,

John said to him, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he was not one of our followers."

But Jesus said, "Do not tell him not to do so, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty act, and be able soon after to abuse me.

They said, "Moses permits a man to divorce his wife by drawing up a written divorce-notice."

But Jesus said to them, "It was on account of your perversity that he laid down that law for you.

And he said to them, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his former wife,

When Jesus saw it, he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as they.

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

But he said to him, "Master, I have obeyed all these commandments ever since I was a child."

And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and he said to him, "There is one thing that you lack. Go, sell all you have, and give the money to the poor, and then you will have riches in heaven; and come back and be a follower of mine."

And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to enter the Kingdom of God!"

But the disciples were amazed at what he said. And Jesus said to them again, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!

They were perfectly astounded and said to him, "Then who can be saved?"

Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God, for anything is possible for God."

Jesus said, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or land for me and for the good news,

"See!" he said, "we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the heathen

And Zebedee's two sons, James and John, came up to him and said, "Master, we want you to do for us whatever we ask."

He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

They said to him, "Let us sit one at your right hand and one at your left, in your triumph."

Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink what I am drinking, or undergo the baptism that I am undergoing?"

They said to him, "Yes, we can." Jesus said to them, "Then you shall drink what I am drinking, and you shall undergo the baptism that I am undergoing;

And Jesus called them to him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men tyrannize over them;

Jesus stopped and said, "Call him here." And they called the blind man and said to him, "Courage now! Get up, he is calling you!"

Jesus spoke to him and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Master, let me regain my sight!"