He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."

Again he departed from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.

He took him aside from the crowd, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha." that is, "Be opened."

Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak."

In those days, when there was a great crowd, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to himself, and said to them,

He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven."

He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the crowd.

They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.

Now they were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.

Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha.

He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."

He left them, and again entering into a boat, departed to the other side.

He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

He, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Do you not perceive yet, neither understand? Are your hearts hardened?

When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve."

"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."

He asked them, "Do you not yet understand?"

He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.

He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

He looked up, and said, "I see men; they look like trees walking."

Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He made him look up, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

He sent him away to his house, saying, "Do not enter into the village."

Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Messiah."

He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan. For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."

He called the crowd to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

He said to them, "Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.

For he did not know what to say, for they became very afraid.

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

He told them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. And why is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be rejected?

He asked them, "What are you asking them?"

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."

He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."

They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.

He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.

When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again."

Having screamed, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."

But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

And when he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"

And he said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."

They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it.

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise again."

He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing on the way?"

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."

He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he does not follow us."

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to the Messiah, truly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Crowds came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.

He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

But Jesus said, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

But from the beginning of the creation, he made them male and female.

He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me. Do not forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Truly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

And he took them in his arms, laying his hands on them, and blessed them.

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

And he said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God."

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it to enter into the Kingdom of God.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. After three days he will rise again."

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

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me."

Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he shouted all the louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me."

Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up. Get up. He is calling you."

He, casting away his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." And immediately he received his sight, and followed him on the road.

When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."

Those who went in front, and those who followed, shouted, "Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

And he entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

They came to Jerusalem, and he entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

He taught, saying to them, "Is not it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers."

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.

Truly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; it will be done for him.

They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,

They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went on a journey.

When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

Again, he sent another servant to them; and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

He had one left, a beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the crowd; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.