20and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. 21When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, He has gone out of his mind. 22And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons. 23And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? 24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. 27But no one can enter a strong mans house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.
28Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; 29but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin 30for they had said, He has an unclean spirit.
31Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him.
32A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you.
33And he replied, Who are my mother and my brothers?
34And looking at those who sat around him, he said, Here are my mother and my brothers!
35Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.
10When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables.
11And he said to them, To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables;
12in order that 13And he said to them, Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?
14The sower sows the word.
15These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
16And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy.
17But they have no root, and endure only for a while; then, when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
18And others are those sown among the thorns: these are the ones who hear the word,
19but the cares of the world, and the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing.
20And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.
21He said to them, Is a lamp brought in to be put under the bushel basket, or under the bed, and not on the lampstand?
22For there is nothing hidden, except to be disclosed; nor is anything secret, except to come to light.
23Let anyone with ears to hear listen!
24And he said to them, Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you.
25For to those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.
26He also said, The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,
27and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
28The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
29But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.
30He also said, With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it?
31It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;
32yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.
33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;
34he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
5They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.
2And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him.
3He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain;
4for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him.
5Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones.
6When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him;
7and he shouted at the top of his voice, What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.
8For he had said to him, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!
9Then Jesus asked him, What is your name? He replied, My name is Legion; for we are many.
10He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.
11Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding;
12and the unclean spirits begged him, Send us into the swine; let us enter them.
13So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned in the sea.
14The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened.
15They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion; and they were afraid.
16Those who had seen what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine reported it.
17Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.
18As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.
19But Jesus refused, and said to him, Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.
20And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.
21When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea.
22Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet
23and begged him repeatedly, My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.
24So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him.
25Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years.
26She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse.
27She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
28for she said, If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.
29Immediately her hemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
30Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, Who touched my clothes?
31And his disciples said to him, You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, Who touched me?
32He looked all around to see who had done it.
33But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.
34He said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.
35While he was still speaking, some people came from the leaders house to say, Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?
36But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, Do not fear, only believe.
37He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
38When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
39When he had entered, he said to them, Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.
40And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the childs father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.
41He took her by the hand and said to her, Talitha cum, which means, Little girl, get up!
42And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement.
43He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.
6He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
2On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands!
3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him.
4Then Jesus said to them, Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.
5And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them.
6And he was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went about among the villages teaching.
7He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
8He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts;
9but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics.
10He said to them, Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place.
11If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.
12So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent.
13They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
14King Herod heard of it, for Jesus name had become known. Some were saying, John the baptizer has been raised from the dead; and for this reason these powers are at work in him.
15But others said, It is Elijah. And others said, It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.
16But when Herod heard of it, he said, John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.
17For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philips wife, because Herod had married her.
18For John had been telling Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brothers wife.
19And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him. But she could not,
20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he protected him. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed; and yet he liked to listen to him.
21But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers and for the leaders of Galilee.
22When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it.
23And he solemnly swore to her, Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom.
24She went out and said to her mother, What should I ask for? She replied, The head of John the baptizer.
25Immediately she rushed back to the king and requested, I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.
26The king was deeply grieved; yet out of regard for his oaths and for the guests, he did not want to refuse her.
27Immediately the king sent a soldier of the guard with orders to bring Johns head. He went and beheaded him in the prison,
28brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. Then the girl gave it to her mother.
29When his disciples heard about it, they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.
45Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.
46After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray.
47When evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land.
48When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the sea. He intended to pass them by.
49But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out;
50for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.
51Then he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,
52for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
53When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat.
54When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him,
55and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.
56And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.
7Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him,
2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.
3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders;
4and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.)
5So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?
6He said to them, Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 9Then he said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!
10For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.
11But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban (that is, an offering to God)
12then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother,
13thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.
14Then he called the crowd again and said to them, Listen to me, all of you, and understand:
15there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.
17When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
18He said to them, Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
19since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
20And he said, It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
21For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,
22adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.
31Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
32They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
33He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.
34Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
36Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.
37They were astounded beyond measure, saying, He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.
8In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them,
2I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat.
3If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the wayand some of them have come from a great distance.
4His disciples replied, How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?
5He asked them, How many loaves do you have? They said, Seven.
6Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and they distributed them to the crowd.
7They had also a few small fish; and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be distributed.
8They ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
9Now there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away.
10And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.
11The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, to test him.
12And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.
13And he left them, and getting into the boat again, he went across to the other side.
14Now the disciples had forgotten to bring any bread; and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.
15And he cautioned them, saying, Watch outbeware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.
16They said to one another, It is because we have no bread.
17And becoming aware of it, Jesus said to them, Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
18Do you have eyes, and fail to see? Do you have ears, and fail to hear? And do you not remember?
19When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect? They said to him, Twelve.
20And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect? And they said to him, Seven.
21Then he said to them, Do you not yet understand?
31Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.
34He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
35For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
36For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
37Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?
38Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
9And he said to them, Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.
2Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
3and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them.
4And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
5Then Peter said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
6He did not know what to say, for they were terrified.
7Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!
8Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more, but only Jesus.
9As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
10So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead could mean.
11Then they asked him, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?
12He said to them, Elijah is indeed coming first to restore all things. How then is it written about the Son of Man, that he is to go through many sufferings and be treated with contempt?
13But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written about him.
14When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.
15When the whole crowd saw him, they were immediately overcome with awe, and they ran forward to greet him.
16He asked them, What are you arguing about with them?
17Someone from the crowd answered him, Teacher, I brought you my son; he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak;
18and whenever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.
19He answered them, You faithless generation, how much longer must I be among you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.
20And they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.
21Jesus asked the father, How long has this been happening to him? And he said, From childhood.
22It has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us.
23Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things can be done for the one who believes.
24Immediately the father of the child cried out, I believe; help my unbelief!
25When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, You spirit that keeps this boy from speaking and hearing, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!
26After crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, He is dead.
27But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he was able to stand.
28When he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could we not cast it out?
29He said to them, This kind can come out only through prayer.
33Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, What were you arguing about on the way?
34But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest.
35He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.
36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them,
37Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.
38John said to him, Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.
39But Jesus said, Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.
40Whoever is not against us is for us.
41For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.
42If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea.
43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
45And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell.
47And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell,
48where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.
49For everyone will be salted with fire.
50Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
10He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them.
2Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?
3He answered them, What did Moses command you?
4They said, Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.
5But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.
6But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
7For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.
10Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
11He said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;
12and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
13People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them.
14But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
15Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.
16And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
17As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
18Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
19You know the commandments: You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honor your father and mother.
20He said to him, Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.
21Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.
22When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.
23Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!
24And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
26They were greatly astounded and said to one another, Then who can be saved?
27Jesus looked at them and said, For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.
28Peter began to say to him, Look, we have left everything and followed you.
29Jesus said, Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news,
30who will not receive a hundredfold now in this agehouses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields with persecutionsand in the age to come eternal life.
31But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.
36And he said to them, What is it you want me to do for you?
37And they said to him, Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.
38But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
39They replied, We are able. Then Jesus said to them, The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
40but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.
41When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John.
42So Jesus called them and said to them, You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.
43But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant,
44and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.
45For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
they may indeed look, but not perceive,
so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.This people honors me with their lips,
8You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.
7in vain do they worship me,Hosanna!
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