How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?"

Jesus told his disciples to have a boat ready for him so that the crowd wouldn't crush him,

because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.

Zebedee's sons James and his brother John (whom he named Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder),

Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

And if a household is divided against itself, that household won't stand.

Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

but the worries of life, the deceitful pleasures of wealth, and the desires for other things come in and choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

when it's planted it comes up and becomes larger than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that the birds in the sky can nest in its shade."

That day, when evening had come, he told them, "Let's cross to the other side."

A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.

But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"

He told him, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us." He kept pleading with Jesus not to send them out of that region.

So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"

and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."

Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.

Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. "Where did this man get all these things?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

He told them repeatedly, "Whenever you go into a home, stay there until you leave that place.

So they went and preached that people should repent.

King Herod heard about this, because Jesus' name had become well-known. He was saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why he is able to do these miracles."

because Herod was afraid of John. He knew that John was a righteous and holy man, and so he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he did much of what he said. In fact, he liked listening to him.

He told them, "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest for a while," because so many people were coming and going that they didn't even have time to eat.

Send the crowds away so that they can go to the neighboring farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

He saw that his disciples were straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea. He intended to go up right beside them,

They noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

Then he continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean,

because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

Then he looked up to heaven, sighed, and told him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened!"

At that time, after a large crowd again had gathered together with nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples and told them,

They also had a few small fish. He blessed them and said that the fish should also be distributed.

So they were discussing with one another the fact that they didn't have any bread.

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but after three days he would rise again.

and his clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone on earth could bleach them.

Then Peter told Jesus, "Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

So they asked him, "Don't the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

He told them, "Elijah is indeed coming first and will restore all things. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be treated shamefully?

But I tell you that Elijah has come, yet people treated him just as they pleased, as it is written about him."

A man in the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that won't let him talk.

When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"

The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

Then they left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus didn't want anyone to find out about it,

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It's better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.

In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

But Jesus told them, "It was because of your hardness of heart that he wrote this command for you.

That's why "a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

It's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

Jesus called his disciples and told them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers among the unbelievers lord it over them, and their superiors act like tyrants over them.

That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus, his disciples, and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus (that is, the son of Timaeus) was sitting by the road.

When he heard that Jesus of Nazareth was there, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

and told them, "Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you go into it, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever ridden. Untie it, and bring it along.

some men standing there asked them, "What are you doing untying that colt?"

Many people spread their coats on the road, while others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.

I tell all of you with certainty, if anyone says to this mountain, "Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

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

"Whenever you stand up to pray, forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.

Then the man sent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants. Some of these they beat, and others they killed.

Haven't you ever read this Scripture: "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

They were trying to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. Realizing that he had spoken this parable against them, they left him alone and went away.

They came and told him, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance. Rather, you teach the way of God truthfully. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or shouldn't we?"

So Jesus told them, "Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were utterly amazed at him.

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, he should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

The second is this: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."

Then the scribe told him, "Well said, Teacher! You have told the truth that "God is one, and there is no other besides him.'

To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."

When Jesus saw how wisely the man answered, he told him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that, no one dared to ask him another question.

While Jesus was teaching in the Temple, he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Messiah is David's son?

He called his disciples and told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, this destitute widow has dropped in more than everyone who is contributing to the offering box,

"Do you see these large buildings?" Jesus responded. "Not one stone here will be left on another that will not be torn down."

Jesus began to say to them, "See to it that no one deceives you.

When they take you away and hand you over for trial, don't worry ahead of time about what you will say. Instead, say whatever is given to you at that time, because it won't be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Pray that it may not be in winter,

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

"At that time, if anyone says to you, "Look! Here is the Messiah!', or, "Look! There he is!' don't believe it,

"Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you will know that the Son of Man is near, right at the door.

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

When he goes into a house, say to its owner that the Teacher asks, "Where is my room where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?'

Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished and ready. Get everything ready for us there."

For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

He told them, "This is my blood of the covenant that is being poured out for many people.