I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

But the captain answered, "I am not a suitable person, sir, to have you come under my roof, but simply say the word, and my servant will be cured.

For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

"Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.'

Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one understands the Son but the Father, nor does anyone understand the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest,

"Here is my servant whom I have selected, My beloved, who delights my heart! I will endow him with my Spirit, And he will announce a judgment to the heathen.

And if I am driving the demons out by Beelzebub's aid, by whose aid do your sons drive them out? Therefore let them be your judges.

But if I am driving the demons out by the aid of God's Spirit, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

But he answered, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of Israel's house."

He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

He said, "Yes." But when he went home, Jesus spoke of it first and said, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect duties and taxes? From their own people, or from aliens?"

For wherever two or three are gathered as my followers, I am there among them."

Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"

But he answered one of them, 'My friend, I am doing you no injustice. Did you not agree with me on a dollar?

But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking for! Can you drink what I am going to drink?" They answered, "Yes, we can."

He said to them, "Then what I drink you shall drink, but as for sitting at my right or my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined by my Father."

'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men but of living!"

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am the Christ,' and many will be misled by them.

"Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful slave whom his master put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

And he said, "Go into the city, to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Master says, "My time is near. I am going to keep the Passover at your house with my disciples." ' "

The Son of Man is to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!"

But after I am raised to life again, I will go back to Galilee before you."

So the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver pieces, the price of the one whose price had been fixed, on whom some of the Israelites had set a price,

Now at festival time the governor was accustomed to release for the people any prisoner whom they chose,

Pilate said to them, "Then what am I to do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"

When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing but that a riot was beginning instead, he took some water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

And this was his message: "After me there is coming one stronger than I am, one whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

And he went up the hillside and summoned to him those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

He appointed twelve of them, whom he called apostles, to be with him and to be sent out to preach,

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink what I am drinking, or undergo the baptism that I am undergoing?"

They said to him, "Yes, we can." Jesus said to them, "Then you shall drink what I am drinking, and you shall undergo the baptism that I am undergoing;

but as for sitting at my right or at my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined."

But as to the dead being raised, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

Many will come under my name and say 'I am he,' and many will be misled by them.

And what I am telling you I mean for all??e on the watch!"

For the Son of Man is indeed to go away as the Scriptures say of him, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born."

But after I am raised to life again I will go back to Galilee before you."

But Jesus said, "I am! and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty and coming in the clouds of the sky!"

Now at festival time he used to set free for them one prisoner, whom they petitioned for.

Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.

Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life."

The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

And Mary said, "I am the Lord's slave. Let it be as you say." Then the angel left her.

Who am I, To have the mother of my Lord come to me?

John said to them all, "I am only baptizing you in water, but someone is coming who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to untie. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.

but Herod the governor, whom he condemned because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the wicked things Herod had done,

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' feet and said, "Leave me, Master, for I am a sinful man."

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose twelve of them whom he named apostles:

Simon, whom he named Peter, his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

If anyone comes to me and listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, I will show you whom he is like.

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave was sick and at the point of death.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

For I am myself under the orders of others, and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!'

Simon answered, "The one, I suppose, for whom he canceled most." "You are right," he said.

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom nobody had been able to cure,

But Herod said, "John I have beheaded, but who can this be about whom I hear such reports?" And he endeavored to see him.

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God!"

Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home."

Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

But if it is with the finger of God that I am driving the demons out, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

Alas for you! For you build monuments for the prophets, whom your forefathers killed.

I will show you whom to fear: fear him who, after killing you, has power to hurl you into the pit. Yes, fear him, I tell you.

And he said to himself, 'What am I going to do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them.

And the Master said, "Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful manager, whom his master will put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am till it is over!

And did not this woman, who is a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, have to be released from those bonds on the Sabbath day?"

He said to them, "Go and say to that fox, 'Here I am, driving out demons and performing cures, today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will be through.

Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. Please have me excused.'

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from my position people will take me into their homes.'

And he called to him and said, 'Father Abraham! take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in torment, here in the flames!'

And if he wrongs you seven times a day, and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

And when he had secured the appointment and returned, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he could find out how much they had made.

And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

For the Son of Man is going his way, as it has been decreed, but alas for the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!"

For which is greater, the man at the table, or the servant who waits on him? Is not the man at the table? Yet I am like a servant among you.

Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go to prison and to death with you!"

Shortly after, a man saw him and said, "You are one of them too!" But Peter said, "I am not!"

And they all said, "Are you the Son of God then?" And he said to them, "I am, as you say!"

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."