1:2: As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.
1:3: The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"
1:4: John came baptizing{To baptize means to immerse in (or wash with) water (or fire). This baptizm is not just to cleanse the body, but as an outward sign of an inward spiritual cleansing and commitment.} in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
1:5: All the country of
1:6: John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.
1:7: He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
1:8: I baptized you in{The Greek word (en) translated here as "in" could also be translated as "with" in some contexts.} water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."
1:9: It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the
1:12: Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
1:26: The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
1:36: Simon and those who were with him followed after him;
1:37: and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."
1:38: He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this reason I came forth."
1:39: He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
1:40: There came to him a leper, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."
1:41: Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean."
1:42: When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.
1:43: He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,
1:44: and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
1:45: But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.
2:1: When he entered again into
2:2: Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.
2:3: Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
2:4: When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
2:5: Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
2:6: But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
2:7: "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
2:8: Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
2:9: Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
2:10: But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic--
2:11: "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."
2:12: He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
2:13: He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.
2:16: The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
2:17: When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
2:18: John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
2:22: No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
2:23: It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.
2:24: The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
2:25: He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and they who were with him?
2:26: How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"
2:27: He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
3:1: He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.
3:2: They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
3:3: He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."
3:4: He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
3:5: When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
3:6: The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
3:7: Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from
3:8: from
3:9: He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
3:12: He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
3:14: He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,
3:15: and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
3:16: Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;
3:17: James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;
3:18: Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;
3:19: and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house.
3:22: The scribes who came down from
3:28: Most assuredly I tell you, all of the children of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;
3:29: but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
3:30: -- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
3:31: His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.
3:34: Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
4:1: Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
4:2: He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
4:3: "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
4:4: and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it.
4:5: Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
4:6: When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
4:7: Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
4:8: Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
4:9: He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
4:10: When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
4:11: He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
4:12: that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
4:13: He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
4:20: These are those which were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
4:21: He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket{Literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand?
4:25: For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."
4:26: He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
4:27: and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.
4:31: It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
4:32: yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
4:33: With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
4:36: Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
4:39: He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
4:41: They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
5:1: They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
5:2: When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
5:3: who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,
5:4: because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
5:5: Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
5:6: When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
5:7: and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment
5:8: For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
5:9: He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
5:10: He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
5:13: At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
5:29: Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
5:30: Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
5:31: His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
5:32: He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
5:41: Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up."
5:42: Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
6:1: He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.
6:2: When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
6:3: Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.
6:4: Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."
6:5: He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk, and healed them.
6:6: He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
6:7: He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
6:8: He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
6:9: but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
6:12: They went out and preached that people should repent.
6:15: But others said, "It is Elijah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets."
6:17: For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.
6:18: For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."
6:19: Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't,
6:20: for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
6:23: He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."
6:24: She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
6:25: She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."
6:26: The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
6:48: Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,
6:49: but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;
6:50: for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I!{Literally, "I AM!"} Don't be afraid."
6:52: for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
7:1: Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from
7:2: Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
7:3: (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
7:4: They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
7:5: The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
7:6: He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
7:7: But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'
7:8: "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."
7:9: He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
7:10: For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
7:11: But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban{Corban is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.}, that is to say, given to God;"'
7:12: then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
7:13: making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
7:14: He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.
7:29: He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
7:30: She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.
7:35: Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.
8:1: In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
8:2: "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
8:3: If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way."
8:4: His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
8:5: He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven."
8:6: He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
8:7: They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
8:8: They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
8:9: Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
8:13: He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.
8:17: Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?
8:20: "When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."
8:21: He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
8:25: Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.
8:28: They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets."
8:30: He charged them that they should tell no one about him.
8:34: He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
9:1: He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."
9:2: After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
9:3: His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
9:4: Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
9:5: Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
9:6: For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
9:7: A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
9:8: Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.
9:9: As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
9:13: But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
9:14: Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
9:20: They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
9:25: When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"
9:26: Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."
9:27: But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
9:30: They went out from there, and passed through
9:31: For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."
9:32: But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
9:34: But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.
9:35: He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."
9:36: He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
9:37: "Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."
9:38: John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."
9:39: But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
9:46: 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
9:47: If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
9:48: 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
9:49: For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
10:1: He arose from there and came into the borders of
10:2: Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
10:3: He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
10:4: They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
10:5: But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
10:6: But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.
10:7: For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
10:8: and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
10:9: What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
10:15: Most assuredly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
10:16: He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
10:19: You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"
10:20: He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."
10:21: Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."
10:22: But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
10:24: The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the
10:25: It is easier for a camel to go through a{or, the} needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
10:26: They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"
10:27: Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."
10:28: Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."
10:29: Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake,
10:30: but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
10:31: But many who are first will be last; and the last first."
10:32: They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
10:35: James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
10:36: He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
10:37: They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
10:38: But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
10:39: They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
10:40: but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
10:41: When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
10:50: He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
10:52: Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
11:1: When they drew near to
11:2: and said to them, "Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.
11:3: If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."
11:4: They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
11:5: Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?"
11:6: They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
11:7: They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it.
11:8: Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
11:9: Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
11:11: Jesus entered into the temple in
11:22: Jesus answering said to them, "Have faith in God.
12:1: He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
12:2: When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
12:3: They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
12:4: Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
12:5: Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.
12:6: Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
12:7: But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
12:8: They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
12:9: What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
12:16: They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's."
12:19: "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
12:20: There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
12:22: and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
12:26: But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'
12:27: He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
12:28: One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
12:29: Jesus answered, "The greatest is, '
12:32: The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
12:33: and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
12:34: When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.
12:36: For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.'
12:37: Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.
12:41: Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
12:43: He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
12:44: for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."
13:1: As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
13:2: Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."
13:3: As he sat on the
13:4: "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?"
13:5: Jesus, answering, began to tell them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.
13:6: For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!{Literally, "I AM!"}' and will lead many astray.
13:7: "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.
13:8: For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.
13:9: But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
13:14: But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
13:15: and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.
13:29: even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.
14:1: It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might sieze him by deception, and kill him.
14:2: For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."
14:3: While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard-- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
14:4: But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?
14:5: For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii,{300 denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural laborer.} and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.
14:6: But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
14:7: For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
14:8: She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
14:9: Most assuredly I tell you, wherever this gospel may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."
14:10: Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
14:12: On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?"
14:13: He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,
14:14: and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
14:15: He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make ready for us there."
14:16: His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
14:19: They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?"
14:22: As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."
14:23: He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.
14:25: Most assuredly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God."
14:26: When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
14:27: Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'
14:28: However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."
14:29: But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not."
14:30: Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times."
14:31: But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same thing.
14:33: He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
14:43: Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came--and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
14:57: Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,
14:58: "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"
14:59: Even so, their testimony did not agree.
14:60: The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"
14:61: But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
14:62: Jesus said, "I AM. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky."
14:63: The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses?
14:64: You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
14:65: Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
14:66: As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,
14:67: and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"
14:68: But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the cock crowed.
14:69: The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them."
14:70: But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
14:71: But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man of whom you speak!"
14:72: The cock crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.
15:1: Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
15:2: Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
15:3: The chief priests accused him of many things.
15:4: Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
15:5: But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
15:6: Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
15:7: There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
15:8: The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
15:9: Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
15:10: For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
15:14: Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
15:15: Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
15:27: With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
15:29: Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
15:33: When the sixth hour{or, noon} had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}
15:34: At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
15:35: Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."
15:36: One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
15:37: Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
15:39: When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
15:40: There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
15:41: who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
16:1: When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
16:2: Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
16:3: They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"
16:4: for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.
16:5: Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.
16:6: He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!
16:7: But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into
16:8: They went out,{TR adds "quickly"} and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
16:9: Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
16:17: These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
16:18: they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
16:19: So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
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