Then a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with you!"

"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!"

When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."

At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. "Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?" he asked them.

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

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

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

A crowd was sitting around him. They told him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

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.

Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

He asked them, "Why are you such cowards? Don't you have any faith yet?"

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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?

Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah!" Jesus sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

He asked the scribes, "What are you arguing about with them?"

The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

Jesus told him, ""If you are able?' Everything is possible for the person who believes!"

Then Jesus looked around and told his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!"

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans it's impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God."

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

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.

If anyone asks you, "Why are you doing this?,' say, "The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back here at once."

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

and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority to do them?"

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?"

Seeing through their hypocrisy, Jesus replied to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."

So they brought one. Then he asked them, "Whose face and name are on this?" They told him, "Caesar's."

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.

Jesus answered them, "Aren't you mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power?

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"

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.

because nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes and famines in various places. These things are only the beginning of the birth pains."

"So when you see the destructive desecration standing where it should not be (let the reader take note), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me,

He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

He came back a third time. "Are you still sleeping and resting?" he asked. "Enough of that! The time has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

But he kept silent and didn't answer at all. The high priest asked him again, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

Again he denied it. After a little while, the people who were standing there began to say to Peter again, "Obviously you're one of them, because you are a Galilean!"

Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered him, "You say so."

But he told them, "Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him.

These are the signs that will accompany those who believe: In my name they'll drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages,