Then as soon as the crop is ready the man has the sickle put in at once, because harvest-time is come.

It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the soil, is the smallest seed in the world;

With many such illustrations Jesus used to tell his message to people as far as they were able to receive it;

On the evening of that same day Jesus said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."

So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them just as he was in the boat; and the other boats were with him.

As he caught sight of Jesus from afar, he ran and knelt before him,

He continued asking him, "What is your mane?" "Legion is my name, for we are many."

So the spirits begged him, saying, "Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them."

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging to go with him; but he said,

Then one of the wardens of the synagogue, named Jairus, came up, and as soon as he saw Jesus, fell at his feet, with many entreaties,

"My little daughter," he said, "is dying. I beseech you, come and lay your hands on her, that she may recover and live."

While he was still speaking men came from the house of the warden of the synagogue to tell him, "Your daughter is dead, why trouble the Teacher any further?"

As they came to the house of the warden of the synagogue, he gazed upon a tumult, many weeping and wailing shrilly.

"The child is not dead, but asleep." And they began to laugh him to scorn. Then he put them all outside, took the father and mother of the child and those he brought with him, and entered the room where the child was lying.

Then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha, cumi," that is to say, "Little girl, I am speaking to you; arise!"

When it came Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; many, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked; "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, and miracles such as these that happen at his hands?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?"

So they disapproved of him. Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native land and among his relatives and in his home."

and if any place does not receive you, or listen to you, as you go out of it shake off the dust under your feet, as a warning to them."

King Herod heard it, for the name of Jesus had become well known, People were saying, "John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and on that account these powers are working in him."

"He is Elijah," said others. And still others were saying, "He is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

For John had often told Herod, "It is not right for you to live with your brother's wife."

Then when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him and said: "This place is desert, and the day is now far spent.

But he at once spoke with them, saying. "Courage! It is I. Do not be afraid!"

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people at once recognized him,

They had noticed that some of his disciples were eating with "common," that is to say, unwashed hands.

and when they come from the market-place they do not eat without bathing first. and they have many other customs which they have received and observe, such as the washing of cups and jugs and copper pans.

"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites," he answered. "As it is written, 'This people honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far from me;

But in vain do they worship me, For their teaching is only human precepts.'"

"It is praiseworthy, is it," he exclaimed, "to reject the command of God that you may keep your tradition!

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

"What comes out of a man," he continued, "is what defiles him.

Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet

"Let the children be filled first," he said to her. "It is unseemly to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

then looking up to heaven with a sigh, he said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened.")

The man looked up and said, "I can make out the people, for as they move about, I see them like trees."

Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

Here in their presence he was transfigured; and his clothes also became glistering with a radiant whiteness, such as no bleaching on earth could give.

"Master," said Peter, addressing Jesus, "it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Then there came a cloud overshadowing them; and there came a voice out of the cloud. "This is my Son, my beloved. Listen to him."

And suddenly as they looked around, they saw no one any more beside them, but Jesus alone.

As they came down the mountain he strictly forbade them to narrate to any one what they had seen, until after the Son of man had risen from the dead.

So they asked him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

"Elijah does indeed first come," he said, "and restores all things, But how is it written about the Son of Man, that he will endure great suffering, and be rejected?

"Elijah indeed has already come," he added, "and they have done to him whatever they pleased, even as it is written of him."

As soon as they saw him, all the people were astounded and ran up to greet him.

and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and is wasting away. I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

"From childhood," he answered; "and often it has thrown him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us."

"Master," said John, "we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he did not follow us."

"Do not try to stop him," Jesus answered, "for there is no one who performs a miracle in my name who can soon speak evil of me.

He who is not against us is for us.

"If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.

If your foot cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to enter into the life a cripple, than to have two feet and be cast into hell.

If your eye cause you to stumble, tear it out! It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God one-eyed that to keep both your eyes and be cast into hell,

salt is excellent, but if the salt has lost its savor, what will you use to restore its saltness? Then have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

On leaving that place Jesus came into the borders of Judea, on the other side of the Jordan, Once more the people flocked about him, and again, as usual, he began teaching them.

I tell you true that unless a man receives the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not even enter it."

As he started to go forth into the road, a man came running up to him, and knelt down before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

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

Jesus loved him as he looked at him, and said: "One thing you lack. Go, sell all you have and give to the poor; and you shall have wealth in heaven; and come, follow me."

Then Jesus looked round on his disciples and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"

"My sons, how hard it is for those who trust in money to enter the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

When he had looked at them, Jesus said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's,

but shall receive a hundred times as much, now in this present world, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands??nd persecutions with them??nd in the world to come eternal life.

Presently there came up to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and said, "Teacher, we wish you would do for us whatever we ask you."

"What is it you want me to do for you?" said he.

They answered, "Allow us to sit, one at your right hand, and the other at your left hand, in your glory."

but a seat upon my right hand or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been reserved."

"You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority.

Then they reached Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.

Then Jesus stood still, saying, "Call him." So they called the blind man, and said, "Courage, rise, he is calling you."

So they answered them just as Jesus had told them, and they let them take it.

Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the Temple, and after he had looked around at everything, as the hour was now late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

"Is it not written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers."

and as they (he and his disciples) were passing along in the morning, they saw the fig tree already withered from the root.

Then Peter remembered, and exclaimed, "Look, Rabbi, the fig tree which you cursed is withered up."

That is why I am telling you that whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it shall be yours.

And whenever you stand up to pray, forgive, if you have anything against any one, that so your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

Once more they came into Jerusalem; and as he was walking in the Temple courts, there came to him the high priests and Scribes and elders and asked him.

"But those tenants said to themselves. 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

This is the Lord's doing; It is marvelous in our eyes."

So when they came, they said: "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and are not afraid of any one, for you do not regard the face of men; nay, but you reach the way of God in truth. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar or not?

And they brought it. "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" "Caesar's," they answered.

Then came up some Sadducees, men who say there is no resurrection. They too questioned him, saying.

"Teacher, Moses taught us that if a man's brother die, and leave a wife behind him, but no child, that his brother is to marry the widow and to raise up a family for his brother.

And last of all the woman too died. In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For the seven had her as wife."

"Is not this the reason for your error," Jesus answered them, "that you know not the Scripture nor the power of God?

When they rise from the dead men do not marry, and women are not given in marriage, but they are as the angels are in heaven.

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are in grave error."

Just then up came one of the Scribes who had heard them arguing, and realized that Jesus had answered them admirably. "What commandment," he asked, "is the first of all?"

Jesus replied. "The first is. 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord;

"The second is this, "Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. Other command greater than these there is none."

"Admirably said, O Teacher," exclaimed the Scribe. "You have truthfully said that He is one,

and that beside him there is none other, and to love him with all one's heart and with all one's understanding and with all one's might, and to love one's neighbor as oneself is far beyond all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

While he was teaching in the Temple courts, Jesus in his turn asked. "How is it that the Scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

As Jesus was walking out of the Temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and buildings these are!"

"Tell us when these things shall be, and what shall be the sign that all these predictions are about to be fulfilled."

But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars do not be dismayed, such things must come, but the end is not yet.