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?”

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying in bed with a fever, and they told Him about her at once.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him because they heard about everything He was doing.

And looking about at those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

When He was alone with the Twelve, those who were around Him asked Him about the parables.

And He gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned there.

The eyewitnesses described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.

Having heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His robe.

Then He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this and said that she should be given something to eat.

When his disciples heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and placed it in a tomb.

because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

These people honor Me with their lips,
but their heart is far from Me.

When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

Instead, immediately after hearing about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and fell at His feet.

About 4,000 men were there. He dismissed them

And He strictly warned them to tell no one about Him.

He was openly talking about this. So Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s!”

“Elijah does come first and restores everything,” He replied. “How then is it written about the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

But I tell you that Elijah really has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as it is written about him.”

Then He asked them, “What are you arguing with them about?”

Then they came to Capernaum. When He was in the house, He asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”

But they were silent, because on the way they had been arguing with one another about who was the greatest.

Now in the house the disciples questioned Him again about this matter.

Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign when all these things are about to take place?”

For 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: “I don’t know or understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went out to the entryway, and a rooster crowed.

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!”

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” When he thought about it, he began to weep.

Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us,

so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed.

And Mary stayed with her about three months; then she returned to her home.

Fear came on all those who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the hill country of Judea.

All who heard about him took it to heart, saying, “What then will this child become?” For, indeed, the Lord’s hand was with him.

After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child,

His father and mother were amazed at what was being said about Him.

At that very moment, she came up and began to thank God and to speak about Him to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.

But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him about Herodias, his brother’s wife, and about all the evil things Herod had done,

As He began His ministry, Jesus was about 30 years old and was thought to be the

son of Joseph, son of Heli,

Then Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread throughout the entire vicinity.

And news about Him began to go out to every place in the vicinity.

After He left the synagogue, He entered Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him about her.

But He said to them, “I must proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.”

But the news about Him spread even more, and large crowds would come together to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

A centurion’s slave, who was highly valued by him, was sick and about to die.

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, requesting Him to come and save the life of his slave.

This report about Him went throughout Judea and all the vicinity.

Then John’s disciples told him about all these things. So John summoned two of his disciples

After John’s messengers left, He 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.

because he had an only daughter about 12 years old, and she was at death’s door.

While He was going, the crowds were nearly crushing Him.

Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was going on. He was perplexed, because some said that John had been raised from the dead,

“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this I hear such things about?” And he wanted to see Him.

When the crowds found out, they followed Him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and cured those who needed healing.

(For about 5,000 men were there.)

Then He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about 50 each.”

About eight days after these words, He took along Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

They appeared in glory and were speaking of His death, which He was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

“Let these words sink in: The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”

But they did not understand this statement; it was concealed from them so that they could not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Then an argument started among them about who would be the greatest of them.

After this, the Lord appointed 70 others, and He sent them ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.

The Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things,

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to cross-examine Him about many things;

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?

At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.’