And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord;

[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.

And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant.

And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.”

Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.”

But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them.

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?

Jesus went out, along with His disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He questioned His disciples, saying to them, “Who do people say that I am?”

and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?” And they took offense at Him.

But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

Then they *came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road.

And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there.”

And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Six days later, Jesus *took with Him Peter and James and John, and *brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them;

While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.”

And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

About four thousand were there; and He sent them away.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

Jesus got up and went away from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know of it; yet He could not escape notice.

But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions.

And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums.

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

And Jesus *answered saying to them, “Have faith in God.

In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.

As they *approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He *sent two of His disciples,

The apostles *gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that they had done and taught.

He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.

They *went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and began to teach.

And a leper *came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

And Jesus was saying to them, “Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

Immediately He called them; and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went away to follow Him.

And immediately after they came out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Jesus went out from there and *came into His hometown; and His disciples *followed Him.

Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.

Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife.

And He *said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, *came up to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You.”

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way;

While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

They *came and *said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

When Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him; and so He stayed by the seashore.

As He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples *said to Him, “Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”

And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

And He *summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

Immediately coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him;

“But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples *said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

Early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Council, immediately held a consultation; and binding Jesus, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.”

Getting up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

As He was going along by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen.

And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain.

The disciples went out and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Then they *came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves;

but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered.

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Going on a little farther, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

And He was saying, “Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.”

They *came to a place named Gethsemane; and He *said to His disciples, “Sit here until I have prayed.”

And they *came to Bethsaida. And they *brought a blind man to Jesus and *implored Him to touch him.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.][And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.]

“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light,

There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

Then they *sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Him in order to trap Him in a statement.

And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him.”

Immediately the Spirit *impelled Him to go out into the wilderness.

And He *went up on the mountain and *summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.

And Jesus seeing their faith *said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him.

And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.

When they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.

And immediately He entered the boat with His disciples and came to the district of Dalmanutha.

And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Looking at them, Jesus *said, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”

On the next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry.

‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

Calling them to Himself, Jesus *said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them.

Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away.

In His teaching He was saying: “Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and like respectful greetings in the market places,

They were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake,

They *pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross.

From there they went out and began to go through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know about it.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

Again He went out from the region of Tyre, and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of Decapolis.

And he *said to them, “Do not be amazed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen; He is not here; behold, here is the place where they laid Him.

The one who is on the housetop must not go down, or go in to get anything out of his house;

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.”

And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach,

They came to Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He began to question them, “What were you discussing on the way?”

But pray that it may not happen in the winter.

And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.”

Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

When evening had already come, because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they *came and *said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

They were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking on ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were fearful. And again He took the twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him,

And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect.

And Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”

Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples and *said to them,

But He kept silent and did not answer. Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”

They *dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;

And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?

Shall we pay or shall we not pay?” But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”

The soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they *called together the whole Roman cohort.

but to wear sandals; and He added, “Do not put on two tunics.”

and shouting with a loud voice, he *said, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!”

Immediately the news about Him spread everywhere into all the surrounding district of Galilee.

They brought one. And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” And they said to Him, “Caesar’s.”

But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, just as it is written of him.”

and the one who is in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

The Pharisees went out and immediately began conspiring with the Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’

you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother;

When it was evening He *came with the twelve.

Throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple.

And he said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth up.”

And He came to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and she waited on them.

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they *spoke to Jesus about her.

Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

For He had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples were listening.

Sighing deeply in His spirit, He *said, “Why does this generation seek for a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.”

Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

As they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me—one who is eating with Me.”

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and leaves no child, his brother should marry the wife and raise up children to his brother.

And He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave town.

Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

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

They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.

Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him.

But at these words he was saddened, and he went away grieving, for he was one who owned much property.

They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

When evening came, they would go out of the city.

And He was giving orders to them, saying, “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

The second one married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the third likewise;

The disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus *answered again and *said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.

There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.

But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

and they began to acclaim Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

And He healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up.

And He asked them, “What are you discussing with them?”

And he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

And He was asking him, “What is your name?” And he *said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.

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

Simon and his companions searched for Him;

and so all seven left no children. Last of all the woman died also.

And the whole city had gathered at the door.

Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

Being reminded, Peter *said to Him, “Rabbi, look, the fig tree which You cursed has withered.”

He *said to them, “Let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also; for that is what I came for.”

In the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again.

And He *said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?

The inscription of the charge against Him read, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

[But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions.”]

Jesus gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they were drowned in the sea.

Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, “You are the Son of God!”

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’?

And He earnestly warned them not to tell who He was.

for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him.

And He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who dips with Me in the bowl.

And He *answered them and *said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!”

But others were saying, “He is Elijah.” And others were saying, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”

Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember,

Now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain.

and He *said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”

And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”

These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

They were even more astonished and said to Him, “Then who can be saved?”

And He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out the demons.

and began saying to Him, “By what authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do these things?”

But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”

But shall we say, ‘From men’?”—they were afraid of the people, for everyone considered John to have been a real prophet.

And Jesus *said to him, “Truly I say to you, that this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times.”

For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will.

[If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”]

And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?

But Peter said to Him, “Even though all may fall away, yet I will not.”

After they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they *led Him out to crucify Him.

They *came to Jesus and *observed the man who had been demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the “legion”; and they became frightened.

Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death and could not do so;

and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.”

“I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.”

The demons implored Him, saying, “Send us into the swine so that we may enter them.”

When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”

The sower sows the word.

They began to be grieved and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?”

And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them.

“Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.

they found Him, and *said to Him, “Everyone is looking for You.”

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders;

Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what it was that had happened.

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

[And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And He was numbered with transgressors.”]

In the resurrection, when they rise again, which one’s wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”

And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

And he looked up and said, “I see men, for I see them like trees, walking around.”

No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen!”

The Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”

and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

Those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.

And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

And He wondered at their unbelief.And He was going around the villages teaching.

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

“When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.”

But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance.

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;

when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They *said to Him, “Twelve.”

And He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away,

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

And He *took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.

Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting:
“Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord;

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David;
Hosanna in the highest!”

and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”

At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

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

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?”

and *said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him.

When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him,

Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

and to have authority to cast out the demons.

“I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat.

It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”

And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine.

And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

They *crucified two robbers with Him, one on His right and one on His left.

He *said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and come forward!”

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him.

For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.”

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Taking the blind man by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? Answer Me.”

They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

They told Him, saying, “John the Baptist; and others say Elijah; but others, one of the prophets.”

And they began to implore Him to leave their region.

And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests; and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.”

and *implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live.”

and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”

But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

But Peter kept saying insistently, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And they all were saying the same thing also.

Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ you say, ‘The Lord has need of it’; and immediately he will send it back here.”

They *brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it; and He sat on it.

And He said to her, “Because of this answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?”

And going back to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, the demon having left.

Peter *said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tabernacles, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

And Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question, and you answer Me, and then I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

And they ate and were satisfied; and they picked up seven large baskets full of what was left over of the broken pieces.

If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine-growers, and will give the vineyard to others.

If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from a great distance.”

When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, “Why could we not drive it out?”

Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

And He *directed the people to sit down on the ground; and taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks and broke them, and started giving them to His disciples to serve to them, and they served them to the people.

The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

Some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) *came to Jesus, and began questioning Him, saying,

The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

They spoke to them just as Jesus had told them, and they gave them permission.

And many spread their coats in the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.

They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

and a voice came out of the heavens: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”

Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.

After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!”

Immediately she came in a hurry to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give it to you; up to half of my kingdom.”

Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring back his head. And he went and had him beheaded in the prison,

And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;

Elijah appeared to them along with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.

because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

But she answered and *said to Him, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children’s crumbs.”

If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but he is finished!

after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead.

They went away and found a colt tied at the door, outside in the street; and they *untied it.

For she thought, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.”

And she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew were questioning Him privately,

Some of the bystanders were saying to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”

“But be on your guard; for they will deliver you to the courts, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them.

and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse—

And He was saying to them, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

They also had a few small fish; and after He had blessed them, He ordered these to be served as well.

And He sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

And His disciples answered Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.

When some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, “Behold, He is calling for Elijah.”

When his disciples heard about this, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

They led Jesus away to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes *gathered together.

Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

And He warned them to tell no one about Him.

And He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”

And He *came and *found them sleeping, and *said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?

saying, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

And He said, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?

And He was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.’”

They went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had gripped them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

And He went out again by the seashore; and all the people were coming to Him, and He was teaching them.

When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down.”

All at once they looked around and saw no one with them anymore, except Jesus alone.

And Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away, because it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’

“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

And He *said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.)

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

When evening came, after the sun had set, they began bringing to Him all who were ill and those who were demon-possessed.

They *came again to Jerusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders *came to Him,

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”

As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax booth, and He *said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.

And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.