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,