Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.

Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee; ??13 he left Nazaret and settled at Capharnahum beside the lake, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali

When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Do not pray by idle rote like pagans, for they suppose they will be heard the more they say;

When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds?

And why should you trouble over clothing? Look how the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin,

and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them.

Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

for he taught them like an authority, not like their own scribes.

When Jesus heard that, he marvelled; "I tell you truly," he said to his followers, "I have never met faith like this anywhere in Israel.

As he saw the crowds he was moved with pity for them; they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.

enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

to ask him, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"

But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, who call to their playmates,

When the Pharisees noticed it, they said to him, "Look at your disciples, they are doing what is not allowed on the sabbath."

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we would like to have some Sign from you."

He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Then would you like us to go and gather them?'

He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man takes and sows in his field.

He told them another parable. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like dough which a woman took and buried in three pecks of flour, till all of it was leavened."

Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

The Realm of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field; the man who finds it hides it and in his delight goes and sells all he possesses and buys that field.

Again, the Realm of heaven is like a trader in search of fine pearls;

Again, the Realm of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and collected fish of every sort.

So he said to them, "Well then, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Realm of heaven is like a householder who produces what is new and what is old from his stores."

There he could not do many miracles owing to their lack of faith.

in their presence he was transfigured, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes turned white as light.

and said, "I tell you truly, unless you turn and become like children, you will never get into the Realm of heaven at all.

Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the Realm of heaven;

and whoever receives a little child like this for my sake, receives me.

See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, their angels in heaven always look on the face of my Father in heaven.

For the Realm of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard;

At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven.

There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

they like to be saluted in the marketplaces and to be called 'rabbi' by men.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.

For like lightning that shoots from east to west, so will be the arrival of the Son of man.

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.

Then the high priest tore his dress and cried, "He has blasphemed! What more evidence do we want? Look, you have heard his blasphemy for yourselves!

At the close of the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

His appearance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.

For fear of him the sentries shook and became like dead men;

And the moment he rose from the water he saw the heavens cleft and the Spirit coming down upon him like a dove;

and people were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them like an authority, not like the scribes.

"What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

And he rose, lifted his pallet at once, and went off before them all; at this they were all amazed and glorified God saying, "We never saw the like of it!"

The Pharisees said to him, "Look at what they are doing on the sabbath! That is not allowed."

It is like a grain of mustard-seed ??less than any seed on earth when it is sown on earth;

In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it;

Then he said to them, "Why are you afraid like this? Have you no faith yet?"

He was astonished at their lack of faith. Then he made a tour round the villages, teaching.

others said, "It is Elijah," others again, "It is a prophet, like one of the old prophets."

The daughter of Herodias went in and danced to them, and Herod and his guests were so delighted that the king said to the girl, "Ask anything you like and I will give you it."

The king was very vexed, but for the sake of his oaths and his guests he did not like to disappoint her;

So when Jesus disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them, as they were like sheep without a shepherd, he proceeded to teach them at length.

That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

His disciples replied, "Where can one get loaves to satisfy them in a desert spot like this?"

Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said;

And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead";

I tell you truly, whoever will not submit to the Reign of God like a child will never get into it at all."

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

And in the course of his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, to get saluted in the marketplaces,

As he went out of the temple one of his disciples said to him, "Look, teacher, what a size these stones and buildings are!"

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now ??no and never shall be.

If anyone tells you at that time, 'Look, here is the Christ,' or, 'Look, there he is,' do not believe it;

It is like a man leaving his house to go abroad; he puts his servants in charge, each with his work to do, and he orders the porter to keep watch.

This angered some of those present. "What was the use of wasting perfume like this?

Jesus turned on them, saying, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

and once more Pilate asked him, "Have you no reply to make? Look at all their charges against you."

Pilate replied, "Would you like me to release the king of the Jews for you?"

On hearing this some of the bystanders said, "Look, he is calling for Elijah."

Look, there is your kinswoman Elizabeth! Even she has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month;

When his parents saw him they were astounded, and his mother said to him, "My son, why have you behaved like this to us? Here have your father and I been looking for you anxiously!"

"Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret,

two boats on the shore of the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets.

As you would like men to do to you, so do to them.

A scholar is not above his teacher: but if he is perfectly trained he will be like his teacher.

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like.

He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

He who has listened and has not obeyed is like a man who built a house on the earth with no foundation; the river dashed against it and it collapsed at once, and the ruin of that house was great."

When Jesus heard this he marvelled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed he said, "I tell you, I have never met faith like this anywhere even in Israel."

So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"

When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?"

"To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

Like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not weep.'

It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

During the voyage he fell asleep. But when a gale of wind came down on the lake and they were being swamped and in peril,

and the daemons came out of the man and went into the swine; the drove rushed down the steep slope into the lake and were suffocated.

"Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy,

Go your way; I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

He said to them, "Yes, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

(Look! perhaps your very light is dark.)