Book 41 Mark 001:001 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 001:002 As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.{Malachi 3:1} 001:003 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"{Isaiah 40:3} 001:004 John came baptizing{or, immersing} in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. 001:005 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. 001:006 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. 001:007 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. 001:008 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." 001:009 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 001:010 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 001:011 A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 001:012 Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. 001:013 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him. 001:014 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God, 001:015 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News." 001:016 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 001:017 Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men." 001:018 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. 001:019 Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. 001:020 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. 001:021 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. 001:022 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. 001:023 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, 001:024 saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!" 001:025 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!" 001:026 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 001:027 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!" 001:028 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area. 001:029 Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 001:030 Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 001:031 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her, and she served them. 001:032 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons. 001:033 All the city was gathered together at the door. 001:034 He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him. 001:035 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there. 001:036 Simon and those who were with him followed after him; 001:037 and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you." 001:038 He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason." 001:039 He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons. 001:040 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean." 001:041 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean." 001:042 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean. 001:043 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out, 001:044 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." 001:045 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. 002:001 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. 002:002 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them. 002:003 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him. 002:004 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. 002:005 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you." 002:006 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 002:007 "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" 002:008 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts? 002:009 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?' 002:010 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic— 002:011 "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house." 002:012 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!" 002:013 He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. 002:014 As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed him. 002:015 It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. 002:016 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?" 002:017 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." 002:018 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?" 002:019 Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast. 002:020 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day. 002:021 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. 002:022 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." 002:023 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. 002:024 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?" 002:025 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him? 002:026 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?" 002:027 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 002:028 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." 003:001 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. 003:002 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 003:003 He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." 003:004 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. 003:005 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. 003:006 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. 003:007 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, 003:008 from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. 003:009 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. 003:010 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. 003:011 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!" 003:012 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. 003:013 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. 003:014 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, 003:015 and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 003:016 Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; 003:017 James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; 003:018 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; 003:019 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house. 003:020 The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 003:021 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." 003:022 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." 003:023 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 003:024 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 003:025 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 003:026 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. 003:027 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house. 003:028 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; 003:029 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" 003:030 —because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." 003:031 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. 003:032 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your sisters"} are outside looking for you." 003:033 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 003:034 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! 003:035 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." 004:001 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. 004:002 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, 004:003 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, 004:004 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it. 004:005 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. 004:006 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 004:007 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 004:008 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." 004:009 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." 004:010 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 004:011 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, 004:012 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.'"{Isaiah 6:9-10} 004:013 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? 004:014 The farmer sows the word. 004:015 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 004:016 These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 004:017 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. 004:018 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, 004:019 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 004:020 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times." 004:021 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 stand? 004:022 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. 004:023 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear." 004:024 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. 004:025 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him." 004:026 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 004:027 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. 004:028 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 004:029 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come." 004:030 He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? 004:031 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, 004:032 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." 004:033 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 004:034 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. 004:035 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side." 004:036 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. 004:037 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. 004:038 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?" 004:039 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 004:040 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?" 004:041 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" 005:001 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 005:002 When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 005:003 who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, 005:004 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. 005:005 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. 005:006 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, 005:007 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 me." 005:008 For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" 005:009 He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." 005:010 He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 005:011 Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding. 005:012 All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them." 005:013 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. 005:014 Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened. 005:015 They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid. 005:016 Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. 005:017 They began to beg him to depart from their region. 005:018 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 005:019 He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you." 005:020 He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled. 005:021 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea. 005:022 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, 005:023 and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live." 005:024 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides. 005:025 A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, 005:026 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse, 005:027 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes. 005:028 For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well." 005:029 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. 005:030 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" 005:031 His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'" 005:032 He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 005:033 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. 005:034 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease." 005:035 While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?" 005:036 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe." 005:037 He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. 005:038 He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing. 005:039 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep." 005:040 They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying. 005:041 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up." 005:042 Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement. 005:043 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat. 006:001 He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. 006:002 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? 006:003 Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him. 006:004 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." 006:005 He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them. 006:006 He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching. 006:007 He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 006:008 He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, 006:009 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics. 006:010 He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. 006:011 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!" 006:012 They went out and preached that people should repent. 006:013 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them. 006:014 King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." 006:015 But others said, "It is Elijah." Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets." 006:016 But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead." 006:017 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. 006:018 For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." 006:019 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't, 006:020 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. 006:021 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. 006:022 When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you." 006:023 He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom." 006:024 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer." 006:025 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." 006:026 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her. 006:027 Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison, 006:028 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother. 006:029 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. 006:030 The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had taught. 006:031 He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 006:032 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. 006:033 They{TR reads "The multitudes" instead of "They"} saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him. 006:034 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. 006:035 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day. 006:036 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat." 006:037 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii{200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.} worth of bread, and give them something to eat?" 006:038 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish." 006:039 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass. 006:040 They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. 006:041 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all. 006:042 They all ate, and were filled. 006:043 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish. 006:044 Those who ate the loaves were{TR adds "about"} five thousand men. 006:045 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away. 006:046 After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray. 006:047 When evening had come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and he was alone on the land. 006:048 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, 006:049 but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out; 006:050 for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I!{or, "I AM!"} Don't be afraid." 006:051 He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among themselves, and marveled; 006:052 for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. 006:053 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored to the shore. 006:054 When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him, 006:055 and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was. 006:056 Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe{or, tassel} of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well. 007:001 Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. 007:002 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. 007:003 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. 007:004 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.) 007:005 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?" 007:006 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. 007:007 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'{Isaiah 29:13} 007:008 "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." 007:009 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 007:010 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'{Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16} and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'{Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9} 007:011 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;"' 007:012 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 007:013 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this." 007:014 He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. 007:015 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. 007:016 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" 007:017 When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable. 007:018 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him, 007:019 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?" 007:020 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. 007:021 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 007:022 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 007:023 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." 007:024 From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but he couldn't escape notice. 007:025 For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet. 007:026 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter. 007:027 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." 007:028 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." 007:029 He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter." 007:030 She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out. 007:031 Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis. 007:032 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him. 007:033 He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. 007:034 Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!" 007:035 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly. 007:036 He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it. 007:037 They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!" 008:001 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, 008:002 "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. 008:003 If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way." 008:004 His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?" 008:005 He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven." 008:006 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. 008:007 They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also. 008:008 They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over. 008:009 Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away. 008:010 Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha. 008:011 The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him. 008:012 He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation{The word translated "generation" here (genea) could also be translated "people," "race," or "family."} seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation." 008:013 He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side. 008:014 They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one loaf in the boat with them. 008:015 He charged them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod." 008:016 They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no bread." 008:017 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? 008:018 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember? 008:019 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve." 008:020 "When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven." 008:021 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?" 008:022 He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him. 008:023 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything. 008:024 He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees walking." 008:025 Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly. 008:026 He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village." 008:027 Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" 008:028 They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets." 008:029 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ." 008:030 He charged them that they should tell no one about him. 008:031 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 008:032 He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. 008:033 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men." 008:034 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. 008:035 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it. 008:036 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? 008:037 For what will a man give in exchange for his life? 008:038 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." 009:001 He said to them, "Most certainly 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." 009:002 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. 009:003 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 009:004 Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus. 009:005 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." 009:006 For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid. 009:007 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." 009:008 Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only. 009:009 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. 009:010 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant. 009:011 They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" 009:012 He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised? 009:013 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." 009:014 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. 009:015 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him. 009:016 He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?" 009:017 One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; 009:018 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able." 009:019 He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me." 009:020 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. 009:021 He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood. 009:022 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us." 009:023 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." 009:024 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!" 009:025 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!" 009:026 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." 009:027 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose. 009:028 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?" 009:029 He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting." 009:030 They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know it. 009:031 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." 009:032 But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him. 009:033 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?" 009:034 But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest. 009:035 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." 009:036 He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 009:037 "Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me." 009:038 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." 009:039 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. 009:040 For whoever is not against us is on our side. 009:041 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward. 009:042 Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. 009:043 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna,{or, Hell} into the unquenchable fire, 009:044 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 009:045 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna,{or, Hell} into the fire that will never be quenched— 009:046 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' 009:047 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{or, Hell} of fire, 009:048 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'{Isaiah 66:24} 009:049 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 009:050 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." 010:001 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. 010:002 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 010:003 He answered, "What did Moses command you?" 010:004 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her." 010:005 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. 010:006 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.{Genesis 1:27} 010:007 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, 010:008 and the two will become one flesh,{Genesis 2:24} so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 010:009 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." 010:010 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 010:011 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 010:012 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery." 010:013 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. 010:014 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 010:015 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." 010:016 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them. 010:017 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" 010:018 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God. 010:019 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.'"{Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20} 010:020 He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth." 010:021 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." 010:022 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. 010:023 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!" 010:024 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 Kingdom of God! 010:025 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." 010:026 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?" 010:027 Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God." 010:028 Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you." 010:029 Jesus said, "Most certainly 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 sake of the Good News, 010:030 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. 010:031 But many who are first will be last; and the last first." 010:032 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. 010:033 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. 010:034 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again." 010:035 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask." 010:036 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" 010:037 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." 010:038 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?" 010:039 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; 010:040 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared." 010:041 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John. 010:042 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 010:043 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. 010:044 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all. 010:045 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." 010:046 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. 010:047 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" 010:048 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" 010:049 Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!" 010:050 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. 010:051 Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni,{Rhabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."} that I may see again." 010:052 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. 011:001 When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage{TR & NU read "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 011:002 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. 011:003 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here." 011:004 They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him. 011:005 Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?" 011:006 They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go. 011:007 They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it. 011:008 Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road. 011:009 Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, we pray."}! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!{Psalm 118:25-26} 011:010 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" 011:011 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. 011:012 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry. 011:013 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 011:014 Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it. 011:015 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves. 011:016 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. 011:017 He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?'{Isaiah 56:7} But you have made it a den of robbers!"{Jeremiah 7:11} 011:018 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching. 011:019 When evening came, he went out of the city. 011:020 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots. 011:021 Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away." 011:022 Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. 011:023 For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says. 011:024 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. 011:025 Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. 011:026 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions." 011:027 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, 011:028 and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?" 011:029 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 011:030 The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me." 011:031 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 011:032 If we should say, 'From men'"—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet. 011:033 They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things." 012:001 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. 012:002 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard. 012:003 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty. 012:004 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. 012:005 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some. 012:006 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 012:007 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' 012:008 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. 012:009 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. 012:010 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. 012:011 This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes'?"{Psalm 118:22-23} 012:012 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away. 012:013 They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words. 012:014 When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 012:015 Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it." 012:016 They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's." 012:017 Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him. 012:018 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying, 012:019 "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.' 012:020 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. 012:021 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise; 012:022 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died. 012:023 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife." 012:024 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God? 012:025 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 012:026 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'{Exodus 3:6}? 012:027 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken." 012:028 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?" 012:029 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: 012:030 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.'{Deuteronomy 6:4-5} This is the first commandment. 012:031 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'{Leviticus 19:18} There is no other commandment greater than these." 012:032 The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, 012:033 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." 012:034 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. 012:035 Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 012:036 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."'{Psalm 110:1} 012:037 Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly. 012:038 In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, 012:039 and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts: 012:040 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation." 012:041 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. 012:042 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins,{literally, lepta (or widow's mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.} which equal a quadrans coin.{A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day's wages for an agricultural laborer.} 012:043 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury, 012:044 for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on." 013:001 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!" 013:002 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." 013:003 As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, 013:004 "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?" 013:005 Jesus, answering, began to tell them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray. 013:006 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!{or, "I AM!"}' and will lead many astray. 013:007 "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet. 013:008 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. 013:009 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. 013:010 The Good News must first be preached to all the nations. 013:011 When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. 013:012 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. 013:013 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved. 013:014 But when you see the abomination of desolation,{Daniel 9:17; 11:31; 12:11} 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, 013:015 and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house. 013:016 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak. 013:017 But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days! 013:018 Pray that your flight won't be in the winter. 013:019 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be. 013:020 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days. 013:021 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it. 013:022 For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. 013:023 But you watch. "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand. 013:024 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, 013:025 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.{Isaiah 13:10; 34:4} 013:026 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 013:027 Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky. 013:028 "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near; 013:029 even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors. 013:030 Most certainly I say to you, this generation{The word translated "generation" (genea) could also be translated "race," "family," or "people."} will not pass away until all these things happen. 013:031 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 013:032 But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 013:033 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is. 013:034 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. 013:035 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; 013:036 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. 013:037 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch." 014:001 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 seize him by deception, and kill him. 014:002 For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people." 014:003 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. 014:004 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted? 014:005 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. 014:006 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. 014:007 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. 014:008 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. 014:009 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her." 014:010 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. 014:011 They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him. 014:012 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?" 014:013 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, 014:014 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?"' 014:015 He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make ready for us there." 014:016 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover. 014:017 When it was evening he came with the twelve. 014:018 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me." 014:019 They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?" 014:020 He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. 014:021 For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born." 014:022 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." 014:023 He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. 014:024 He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. 014:025 Most certainly 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." 014:026 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 014:027 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.'{Zechariah 13:7} 014:028 However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." 014:029 But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not." 014:030 Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." 014:031 But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same thing. 014:032 They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." 014:033 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. 014:034 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch." 014:035 He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. 014:036 He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire." 014:037 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour? 014:038 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." 014:039 Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words. 014:040 Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him. 014:041 He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 014:042 Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand." 014:043 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. 014:044 Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely." 014:045 When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and kissed him. 014:046 They laid their hands on him, and seized him. 014:047 But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. 014:048 Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? 014:049 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled." 014:050 They all left him, and fled. 014:051 A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, 014:052 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. 014:053 They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him. 014:054 Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire. 014:055 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. 014:056 For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn't agree with each other. 014:057 Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying, 014:058 "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.'" 014:059 Even so, their testimony did not agree. 014:060 The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?" 014:061 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" 014:062 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." 014:063 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses? 014:064 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death. 014:065 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. 014:066 As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came, 014:067 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!" 014:068 But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed. 014:069 The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them." 014:070 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." 014:071 But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man of whom you speak!" 014:072 The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept. 015:001 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. 015:002 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say." 015:003 The chief priests accused him of many things. 015:004 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!" 015:005 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled. 015:006 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him. 015:007 There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. 015:008 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. 015:009 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" 015:010 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. 015:011 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead. 015:012 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?" 015:013 They cried out again, "Crucify him!" 015:014 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!" 015:015 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified. 015:016 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. 015:017 They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 015:018 They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 015:019 They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. 015:020 When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him. 015:021 They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross. 015:022 They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull." 015:023 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn't take it. 015:024 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take. 015:025 It was the third hour,{9:00 A. M.} and they crucified him. 015:026 The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS." 015:027 With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left. 015:028 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was numbered with transgressors." 015:029 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, 015:030 save yourself, and come down from the cross!" 015:031 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself. 015:032 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.{TR omits "him"}" Those who were crucified with him insulted him. 015:033 When the sixth hour{or, noon} had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM} 015:034 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?"{Psalm 22:1} 015:035 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah." 015:036 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." 015:037 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. 015:038 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. 015:039 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!" 015:040 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; 015:041 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. 015:042 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 015:043 Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. 015:044 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. 015:045 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. 015:046 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 015:047 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid. 016:001 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. 016:002 Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. 016:003 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?" 016:004 for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back. 016:005 Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed. 016:006 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! 016:007 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'" 016:008 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. 016:009 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. 016:010 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. 016:011 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved. 016:012 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country. 016:013 They went away and told it to the rest. They didn't believe them, either. 016:014 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen. 016:015 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. 016:016 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. 016:017 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; 016:018 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." 016:019 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. 016:020 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

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