The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

After they were gone, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy Him.”

Then the news about Him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to Him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And He healed them.

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout that whole area.

But when they hand you over, don’t worry about how or what you should speak. For you will be given what to say at that hour,

As these men went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

This is the one it is written about:

Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You;
he will prepare Your way before You.

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus.

When Jesus heard about it, He withdrew from there by boat to a remote place to be alone. When the crowds heard this, they followed Him on foot from the towns.

Now those who ate were about 5,000 men, besides women and children.

Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:

Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”

But He turned and told Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s.”

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Don’t tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist.

As they were meeting in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

Again, I assure you: If two of you on earth agree about any matter that you pray for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” He said to him. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

When he went out about nine in the morning, he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

About noon and at three, he went out again and did the same thing.

Then about five he went and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’

“When those who were hired about five came, they each received one denarius.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?”

“We are able,” they said to Him.

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they knew He was speaking about them.

“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose Son is He?”

“David’s,” they told Him.

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

But he denied it in front of everyone: “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”