"Similarly, it is like a man going on a trip, who called his servants and turned his money over to them.

When did we see you as a stranger and welcome you, or see you naked and clothe you?

"Then they will reply, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or as a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and didn't help you?'

I tell all of you with certainty, wherever this gospel is proclaimed throughout the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her."

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

He said, "Go to a certain man in the city and say to him, "The Teacher says, "My time is near. I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house."'"

So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

While they were eating, he said, "I tell all of you with certainty, one of you is going to betray me."

The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. 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."

While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. This is my body."

because this is my blood of the new covenant that is being poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.

Then Jesus told them, "All of you will turn against me this very night, because it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, "O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

All of you must stay awake and pray that you won't be tempted. The spirit is indeed willing, but the body is weak."

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Get up! Let's go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!"

Now the betrayer personally had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him."

At this point, Jesus asked the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as if I were a bandit? Day after day I sat teaching in the Temple, yet you didn't arrest me.

Peter, however, followed him at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He went inside and sat down with the servants to see how this would end.

But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest told him, "I command you by the living God to tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God!"

What is your verdict?" They replied, "He deserves to die!"

saying, "Prophesy to us, you Messiah! Who hit you?"

As he went out to the gateway, another woman saw him and told those who were there, "This man was with Jesus from Nazareth."

The high priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put this into the Temple treasury, because it is blood money."

So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.

That is why that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

So when the people had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which man do you want me to release for you Barabbas, or Jesus who is called "the Messiah'?"

Pilate asked them, "Then what should I do with Jesus, who is called the Messiah?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!"

All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and our children!"

As they were leaving, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry Jesus' cross.

Above his head they placed the charge against him. It read, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews."

"He saved others but can't save himself! He is the king of Israel. Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

The following day (that is, after the Day of Preparation), the high priests and Pharisees gathered before Pilate

Pilate told them, "You have a military guard. Go and make the tomb as secure as you know how."

His appearance was bright as lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

He is not here. He has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee, and you will see him there. Remember, I have told you!"

If this is reported to the governor, we'll personally persuade him to keep you out of trouble."

So the soldiers took the money, did as they were instructed, and this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

Therefore, as you go, disciple people in all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "See! I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way.

He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

I baptized you with water, but it is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

Just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens split open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

He said, "The time is now! The kingdom of God is near! Repent, and keep believing the gospel!"

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbaths, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

"What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!"

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

He told the man, "Be sure that you don't tell anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded as proof to the authorities."

"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

As he was walking along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collector's desk. Jesus told him, "Follow me!" So Levi got up and followed him.

Jesus replied, "The wedding guests can't fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they can't fast.

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."

Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?"

Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."

Then he asked them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on Sabbath days, to save a life or to destroy it?" But they remained silent.

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

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

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

So if Satan rebels against himself and is divided, he cannot stand. Indeed, his end has come.

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of eternal sin."

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.

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.

Then Jesus told them, "A lamp isn't brought indoors to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? It's to be put on a lamp stand, isn't it?

Nothing is hidden except for the purpose of having it revealed, and nothing is secret except for the purpose of having it come to light.

He was also saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds on the ground.

But when the grain is ripe, he immediately starts cutting with his sickle because the harvest time has come."

He was also saying, "How can we show what the kingdom of God is like, or what parable can we use to describe it?

Overcome with fear, they kept saying to one another, "Who is this man? Even the wind and the sea obey him!"

Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.

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!"

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.

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."

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

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!

This is the builder, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn't it? His sisters are here with us, aren't they?" And they were offended by him.

Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."

If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

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."

Others were saying, "He is Elijah." Still others were saying, "He is a prophet like one of the other prophets."

When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late.

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized Jesus.

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

They don't eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the proper washing of washing cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'

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)

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

In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

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