The Gospel According to Mark

1* Here begins the Gospel of God’s son Jesus Christ.

2 As it is written in the prophet Isaiah “Lo, I am sending before your face my messenger who shall prepare your road. 3 The voice of one calling out in the wilderness ‘Get ready the Lord’s road, make his thoroughfare straight!’” 4 there came John, who baptized in the wilderness, proclaiming baptism for repentance to the pardoning of sins; 5 and all Judea, and all the Jerusalemites, were going out to him and having themselves baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 6 And John wore camel-hair and a leather belt around his waist, and fed on grasshoppers and wild honey; 7 and he proclaimed “He who is stronger than I is coming behind me, he whose shoestring I am not fit to stoop down and untie. 8 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with Holy Spirit.”

9 And in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. 10 And at once, as he came up out of the water, he saw the sky cleave apart and the Spirit come down to him like a dove; 11 and there was a voice out of the sky, “You are my dear son, in you I take pleasure.” 12 And at once the Spirit drove him out to the wilderness; 13 and he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on his needs.

14 And after John was committed to prison Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God 15 and saying “The time has fully come, and the Reign of God is almost here; repent and believe in the gospel.” 16 And in passing along by the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Simon’s brother Andrew fishing in the sea with casting-nets; for they were fishermen. 17 And Jesus said to them “Come here after me, and I will cause you to become fishers of men”; 18 and at once they left their nets and followed him. 19 And he went on a little and saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, also in their boat putting their nets to rights; 20 and at once he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went after him. 21 And they go to Capernaum; and at once on the sabbath he had gone into the synagogue and was teaching, 22 and they were astonished at his teaching; for he taught them as having authority, and not as did the scribes. 23 And at once there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he screamed out 24 “What have you to do with us, Jesus, you Nazarene? have you come to destroy us? I know you, I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying “Silence, and come out of him.” 26 And, after convulsing him and making a loud outcry, the unclean spirit came out of him. 27 And they were amazed one and all, so that they debated it, saying “What is this? a new teaching with authority! and he gives orders to the unclean spirits and they obey him.” 28 And the report about him went out at once everywhere in the whole region of Galilee.

29* And at once they came out of the synagogue and came to the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John; 30 and Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and at once they told him about her, 31 and he went to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and she waited on their needs. 32 And when evening was come, and the sun was set, they brought to him all who were ill and all the demoniacs; 33 and the whole city was gathered at the door; 34 and he cured many who were ill with various diseases, and expelled many demons, and would not let the demons speak, because they knew him. 35 And in the morning, while it was still deep in the night, he rose and went out, and went away to a lonely place and prayed there. 36 And Simon and those who were with him followed him up 37 and found him, and said to him “Everybody is looking for you.” 38* And he said to them “Let us go elsewhere, to the adjoining towns, that I may make my proclamation there too; for it was for this that I came out.” 39 And he came to all Galilee making the proclamation in their synagogues and expelling the demons.

40 And there came to him a leper, appealing to him and kneeling down and saying to him “If you will, you can cleanse me.” 41 And he, moved with pity, reached out his hand and touched him and said to him “I will; be cleansed”; 42 and at once the leprosy went away from him and he was cleansed. 43 And at once he spoke sternly to him and put him out, 44 and said to him “See that you do not say anything to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and make the offerings that Moses directed on account of your cleansing, for an attestation to them;”

45 But he went out and began to proclaim it a great deal, and to spread the word so that Jesus could no longer come openly into a city; but he was outside in lonely places, and they came to him from every quarter.

2 And upon his coming into Capernaum again after some days it was heard that he was in the house, 2 and great numbers gathered, so that there was no longer room for them even around the door. And he was speaking the word to them, 3 and there came people bringing to him a paralyzed man borne by four. 4 And, not being able to bring the man to him because of the crowd, they took off the roofing where he was, and, by breaking a hole, let down the pallet on which the paralyzed man was lying. 5 And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralyzed man “My child, your sins are forgiven.” 6 But there were some of the scribes sitting there and inwardly questioning 7 “Why does this man speak so? he is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but one, God?” 8 And at once Jesus, recognizing in his spirit that they were thus questioning in their minds, said to them “Why are you inwardly questioning like that? 9 Which is easier, to say to a paralyzed man your ‘sins are forgiven’ or to say rise, and take up your pallet and walk’? 10 But, that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth—” said he to the paralyzed man, 11 “I say to you, Rise, take up your pallet and go home.” 12 And he rose and at once took up the pallet and went out before them all, so that all of them were surprised and glorified God, saying “We never saw anything like this.”

13 And he went out by the seaside again; and all the masses came to him, and he taught them. 14 And in passing he saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting in a customhouse office, and said to him “Follow me”; and he rose and followed him. 15 And it so befell that he was eating a meal in his house, and there were many customhouse officers and people of bad character at the table with Jesus and his disciples (for there were many of them, and they accompanied him), 16** and the scribes of the Pharisees, seeing that he was eating with the people of bad character and the customhouse officers, said to his disciples “Why does he eat with the customhouse officers and people of bad character?” 17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them “Not the able-bodied, but the ill, need a physician; I have not come to call saints, but sinners.”

18 And John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to him “Why is it that John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not?” 19 and Jesus said to them “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? so long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20 But there will come days, when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then, in that day, they will fast. 21 Nobody sews a piece of unfulled cloth upon an old cloak; if one does, the filler takes some away from it, the new from the old, and a worse hole is made. 22* And nobody puts new wine in old skins; if one does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine goes in fresh skins.”

23* And it befell that on the Sabbath he was on his way across the grainfields, and his disciples began to make a way picking the ears; 24 and the Pharisees said to him “There, why are they doing on the sabbath what is not lawful?” 25 and he said to them “Did you never read what David did when he, and those who were with him, were in need and hungry? 26* how he went into the house of God in the high-priesthood of Abiathar and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful that any but the priests should eat, and gave it to those who were with him too?” 27 And he said to them “The sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath; 28 so that the Son of Man is master even of the sabbath.”

3 And he went into a synagogue again, and there was a man there with his hand shriveled; 2 and they were watching him to see if he would cure him on the sabbath, that they might arraign him. 3 And he said to the man with the shriveled hand “Stand forward”; 4 and he said to them “Is it lawful on the sabbath to do a good act or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?” but they were silent. 5 And he looked around at them in anger, grieving over their lumpish-heartedness, and said to the man “Stretch out your hand”; and he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6 And the Pharisees went out and at once entered into a plot with the Herodians against him to make away with him.

7 And Jesus, with his disciples, retired to the seaside; and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, 8 and from Judea and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing how much he was doing, came to him. 9 And he told his disciples to have a boat attend on him because of the mass of people, that they might not crowd him: 10 for he had cured many, so that any who had complaints were throwing themselves against him in order to touch him. 11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him and screamed “You are the Son of God.” 12 And he told them peremptorily over and over not to make him known.

13 And he went up on the mountainside and summoned whom he pleased, and they went to him. 14 And he appointed twelve to be with him, and for him to send out to make the proclamation 15 and to have authority to expel demons: 16 he appointed the twelve, and gave Simon the other name Peter; 17 and James the son of Zebedee and James’s brother John,—and he gave them the other name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder—; 18 and Andrew and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Thomas and James the son of Alpheus and Thaddeus and Simon the Kananee 19 and Judas Iscarioth, the same who was the agent in his arrest.

And he came back to the house; 20 and the crowd came together again so that they could not even eat a meal; 21 and his family, hearing of it, went out to seize him, for they said he was out of his senses. 22 And the scribes that had come down from Jerusalem said that he had Beelzebul, and that it was by the head of the demons that he expelled the demons. 23 And he called them to him and said to them with parables “How can Satan expel Satan? 24 And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot be kept up; 25 and if a family is divided against itself, that family will not be able to stand; 26 and if Satan has stood up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is at an end. 27* But nobody can enter a strong man’s house and plunder it of his goods unless he first binds the strong man, and then he shall plunder his house. 28 I tell you verily that the sons of men will be forgiven all their sins, 29 and whatever blasphemies they indulge in, but one who shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit has no pardon forever, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— 30 because they said “He has an unclean spirit.”

31 And his mother and his brothers came and stood outside and sent to him to call him; 32* and there was a crowd sitting around him, and they told him “Here are your mother and your brothers outside looking for you.” 33 And he answered them “Who is my mother, and my brothers?” 34 and, looking around at those who were sitting round about him, he said “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 for whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

4 And again he began to teach by the seaside; and a very great crowd gathered to him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land; 2 and he taught them much in parables, and said to them in his teaching 3 “Listen: once upon a time a sower went out to sow. 4 And in the sowing one seed fell on the roadside, and the birds came and ate it up; 5 and another fell on the rocky ground where it had not much soil, and came up at once because of not having any depth of soil, 6 and was scorched when the sun rose, and dried up because of not having roots; 7 and another fell in among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and stifled it, and it yielded no crop; 8 and others fell into the good soil and yielded a crop, shooting up and growing, and bore at the rate of thirty and sixty and a hundred.” 9 And he said “Let him who has ears to hear, hear!”

10 And when he was in private his companions, with the Twelve, asked him about the parables; 11 and he said to them “To you is given the secret of the Reign of God, but for those outsiders everything is in parables, 12 that when they see they may see without perceiving, and when they hear they may hear without understanding, for fear they should turn back and be forgiven.” 13 And he said to them “You do not know this parable? and how are you to make out all parables? 14 The sower is sowing the word; 15 and these are the ones by the road, where the word is sowed, and when they hear, at once Satan comes and takes away the word that was sowed in them. 16 And in the same way these are the ones that are sowed on the rocky ground: they who, when they hear the word, at once receive it with joy, 17 and do not have any roots in them but are temporary, and then, when there comes distress or persecution because of the word, are staggered at once. 18 And others are the ones that are sowed in among the thorns; these are they who hear the word, 19 and temporal anxieties and the deceits of wealth, and desires as to other things, step in and stifle the word and it becomes unfruitful. 20 And those are the ones that are sowed on the good soil who hear the word and accept it, and bear their crop at the rate of thirty and sixty and a hundred.”

21 And he said to them “Does the lamp come that it may be put under the peck measure or under the couch? does it not go on the stand? 22 For there is nothing that is secret except with a view to its being disclosed, nor has anything been concealed except with a view to its being brought to light. 23 Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”

24 And he said to them “Look out what you hear. The measure that you give shall be given to you, and you shall have more added to it. 25 For to him who has, more shall be given; and from him who has not, even what he has shall be taken away.”

26 And he said “This is the way the Reign of God is: as a man scatters the seed on the ground 27 and sleeps and wakes night and day, and the seed sprouts and stretches up, he does not know how; 28 the ground bears its crops of itself, first blades, then ears, then full grain in the ears. 29 But when the crop permits he sends in the sickle at once, because the harvest is here.”

30 And he said “How shall we illustrate the Reign of God, or by what parable shall we set it forth? 31 Like a grain of mustard, which, though when it is sowed in the ground it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground, 32 yet, when it is sowed, grows up and becomes the largest of all the plants and makes great branches, so that the birds of the air can perch under its shadow.”

33 And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, in a way that they could take in, 34 and did not speak to them without parable; but to his disciples, when they were by themselves, he explained everything.

35 And he said to them that day when evening came “Let us go over to the other side”; 36 and they left the crowd and took him with them in the boat as he was. And there were other boats with him. 37 And there came a great squall of wind, and the waves were breaking over the side of the boat, so that the boat was getting full; 38 and he was in the stern asleep on the cushion. And they waked him and said to him “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 39 And when he woke up he rebuked the wind and said to the sea “Hush! break off!” and the wind lulled, and there came a great calm. 40 And he said to them “Why are you so timorous? do you not yet have faith?” 41 And they were greatly frightened, and said to each other “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

5 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2* And when he came out of the boat, at once there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 who had his residence in the tombs, and whom no one could bind any longer, even with a chain; 4 because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been wrenched apart by him and the fetters shattered, and nobody was able to subdue him. 5 And he was all the time, night and day, screaming and hacking himself with stones in the tombs and on the mountainsides. 6 And, seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran and did him reverence 7 and said with a loud scream “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torture me”— 8 for he was saying to him “Come out of the man, unclean spirit.” 9 And he put the question to him “What is your name?” and he said to him “My name is Brigade because there are many of us.” 10 And he appealed to him over and over not to send them off out of the country. 11 Now there was there at the foot of the mountain a large herd of hogs feeding; 12 and they appealed to him with the request “Send us among the hogs, so that we may go into them.” 13 And he gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the hogs, and the herd bolted down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them, and were drowned in the sea; 14 and the men who were tending them ran away, and reported it in the city and in the fields, and they came to see what it was that had happened. 15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting down, clothed and sane, the one that had had the brigade, and they were afraid; 16 and those who had seen it told them the story of what had happened to the demoniac, and about the hogs; 17 and they began to appeal to him to go away from their territory. 18 And as he was stepping into the boat the man who had been demon-ridden appealed to him to let him be with him; 19 and he would not let him, but said to him “Go home to your people and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and what mercy he has shown you”; 20 and he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and they all wondered at it.

21 And when Jesus had crossed over to the other side again in the boat, a great crowd gathered about him while he was by the seaside. 22 And there came one of the directors of the synagogue, Jair by name; and at seeing him he threw himself down at his feet 23 and appealed to him over and over, saying “My little daughter is at the point of death; come and lay your hands on her to make her get well and live”; 24 and he went off with him, and a great crowd followed him and were pressing against him. 25 And a woman who had been having a flow of blood twelve years, 26 and had had a great many things done to her by many physicians and spent everything in her house and got no good from it but rather grown worse, 27 having heard about Jesus, came in the crowd behind and touched his cloak— 28 for she said “If I touch even his clothes I shall be made well”—; 29* and at once the trickling of her blood dried up, and she felt that she was healed of her complaint. 30 And at once Jesus, recognizing that the power from him had gone out, turned back in the crowd and said “Who touched my clothes?” 31 And his disciples said to him “You see the crowd pressing against you, and do you say ‘Who touched me’?” 32 And he looked around to see the one that had done that. 33 And the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what she had had done to her, came and threw herself down before him and told him all the truth; 34 and he said to her “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go, and good betide you; be well of your complaint.”

35 While he was still speaking, people came from the director’s house saying “Your daughter has died; why put the teacher out anymore?” 36 But Jesus, overhearing the words spoken, said to the director “Do not be afraid, only believe.” 37 And he would not let anyone go along with him except Peter and James and James’s brother John. 38 And they came to the director’s house; and he saw a commotion, and people weeping and yelling at a great rate, 39 and he went in and said to them “Why are you raising a commotion and weeping? the child is not dead but asleep”; 40 and they laughed at him. But he, putting them all out of the house, took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was, 41 and grasped the child’s hand and said to her “Talitha, kum,” which means “Girl, stand up”; 42 and at once the girl rose and walked (for she was twelve years old), and they were at once seized with great surprise. 43 And he charged them over and over that nobody should know of this, and directed that she be given something to eat.

6 And he went out from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him; 2 and when a sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And as they listened most of them were astonished, saying “Where does this man get this? and what wisdom is it that is given to this man, and such miracles done by his hands? 3 why, this is the carpenter, Mary’s son, the brother of James and Jose and Judah and Simon, and his sisters are here among us”; and they were staggered at him. 4 And Jesus told them “A prophet is not unhonored anywhere but in his hometown and among his relatives and in his house”; 5 and he could not do any miracle there except that he laid his hands on a few invalids and cured them. 6 And he wondered at their unbelievingness.

7 And he went about the surrounding villages teaching. And he called the Twelve to him, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over unclean spirits, 8* and instructed them not to take anything for the journey but only a walking-stick, “no bread, no wallet, no small change in your belts, 9 but go shod with sandals and do not put on two coats.” 10 And he said to them “Wherever you come into a house, stay there till you come out from the place. 11 And whatever place does not receive you and they do not listen to you, in going out from there shake out the dust underneath your feet for an attestation to them.” 12 And they went out and proclaimed that men should repent, 13 and expelled many demons, and rubbed many invalids with oil and cured them.

14 And King Herod heard of it; for his name had become known, and they were saying that John the Baptizer had risen from the dead and this was why the powers were operating in him, 15 and others were saying it was Elijah, and others that it was a prophet, such as the prophets used to be. 16 But Herod, when he heard, said “John that I beheaded—he has risen.” 17 For he, Herod, had sent and seized John and put him in prison in chains on account of Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her; 18 for John had been saying to Herod “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 19 And Herodias held a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him and could not— 20 for Herod was afraid of John, knowing him to be an honest and holy man, and kept him in security, and had a great deal of perplexity at hearing him, and liked to hear him.— 21 And when there came a favorable day, when Herod gave a dinner on his birthday to his grandees and chiliarchs and the leading men of Galilee, 22 and her daughter, Herodias’s, went in and danced, she pleased Herod and those who were at the table with him; and the king said to the girl “Ask me for anything you choose, and I will give it to you”; 23 and he swore to her “Whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom.” 24 And she went out and said to her mother “What shall I ask for?” and she said “John the Baptizer’s head!” 25 And at once she went in to the king with a rush and asked him “I choose to have you give me John the Baptist’s head on a platter instantly”; 26 and the king, though it made him sad, was not willing to disregard her on account of his oaths and of the guests at the table. 27 And at once the king sent a guardsman with orders to bring his head; and he went and beheaded John in the prison 28 and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. 29 And when his disciples heard of it they came and took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb.

30 And the apostles rejoined Jesus, and reported to him all that they had been doing and teaching. 31 And he said to them “Come to a lonely place, you by yourselves, and rest a little” (for there were many coming and going, and they had not even opportunity to eat); 32 and off they went in the boat to a lonely place by themselves. 33 And many saw them going and recognized them, and ran together there by land from all the cities and came there before them; 34 and upon landing he saw a great crowd, and felt for them because they were like sheep that had no shepherd, and began to teach them a great many things. 35 And when it had now come to be a late hour his disciples approached him and said “The place is lonely, and it is already a late hour: 36 dismiss them, that they may go to the farmlands and villages round about and buy themselves something to eat.” 37 But he answered them “Give them something to eat yourselves.” And they said to him “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” 38 But he said to them “How many cakes of bread have you? go see.” And they found out and told him “Five, and two fishes.” 39 And he ordered them to take their places on the green grass, 40 all of them, by parties; and they took their places, by hundreds and by fifties, like beds in a garden. 41 And he took the five cakes and the two fishes and looked up to the sky and pronounced the blessing, and broke up the cakes and gave them to the disciples to set before them; and he divided the two fishes among them all; 42 and they all ate and had their fill. 43 And they took up fragments of the bread to the amount of twelve basketfuls—also of the fishes; 44 and it was five thousand men that had eaten the bread.

45 And at once he made the disciples get into the boat and go to Bethsaida, on the other side, ahead of him, while he dismissed the crowd; 46 and when he had bidden them farewell he went off to the mountain to pray. 47 And when evening came the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he on the land alone; and, 48 as he saw them having a hard time in rowing,—for the wind was against them,—about the fourth watch of the night he came toward them walking on the sea. And he was on the point of passing by them; 49 but they, seeing him walking on the sea, thought it was an apparition, and screamed out; 50 for they all saw him and were alarmed. But he spoke with them at once, and said to them “All right, it is I; do not be afraid.” 51 And he stepped into the boat with them, and the wind lulled; and they were most exceedingly surprised, 52 for they had not understood in the matter of the bread, but their hearts were lumpish.

53 And when they got across to land they came to Gennesaret and moored there; 54 and when they came out of the boat, at once people recognized him 55 and ran all around that country and began to carry those who were ill around on pallets where they heard that he was. 56* And wherever he went into villages or into cities or into country districts, they put the sick in the marketplaces and appealed to him that they might touch even the tassel of his cloak; and as many as touched him recovered.

7 And the Pharisees and some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered about him, 2 and, seeing that some of his disciples ate their bread with “common”—that is, unwashed—hands 3* (for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they have washed their hands to the elbow, insisting on the tradition of the elders; 4** and when they come in from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have sprinkled themselves, and there are many other things which it is traditional with them to insist on, rinsings of cups and cans and kettles), 5 the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him “Why do your disciples not walk in conformity with the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with common hands?” 6 But he said to them “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written ‘This people honors me with the lips, but their hearts are remote from me; 7 and they adore me vainly, inculcating teachings that are commands of men.’ 8 You let go the commandment of God and insist on the tradition of men.” 9 And he said to them “You do fine work setting God’s commandment aside so as to keep your tradition! 10 For Moses said ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Let him who uses bad language to his father or mother suffer death’; 11 but you say ‘If a man says to his father or mother “Whatever you get any good of from me is korban”’ [that is, “a gift”]— 12 you will no longer let him do anything for his father or mother, 13 nullifying God’s word by your tradition that you have handed down; and you do many things of a similar kind.” 14 And he called the crowd to him again and said to them “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing from outside a man, going into him, that can defile him, but it is what goes out of a man that defiles the man.” 16 —— 17 And when he came indoors away from the crowd his disciples questioned him about the paradox; 18 and he said to them “Are you too so unable to see a point? do you not see that anything that goes into a man from outside cannot defile him 19 because it does not go into his heart but into his stomach and out into the latrine?”—making all foods clean. 20 And he said “What goes out of a man, that defiles the man. 21 For from inside, from men’s hearts, go out evil designs, unchastities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, overreachings, villainies, trickery, brutality, stinginess, abusive language, arrogance, foolery,— 23* all these wicked things go out from inside, and do defile the man.”

24 And he left there and went away to the territory of Tyre, and went into a house and wanted nobody to know of it; and he could not escape notice, 25 but at once, hearing about him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and threw herself down at his feet. 26 And the woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by race; and she was asking him to expel the demon from her daughter, 27 and he was saying to her “Let the children have their fill first, for it is not a good thing to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she answered him “Yes, sir, even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.” 29 And he said to her “Because of those words, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” 30 And she went home and found the child down on the couch, and the demon gone out.

31 And he went out of the territory of Tyre again, and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee at a point in the middle of the territory of the Decapolis. 32 And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech, and appealed to him to lay his hand on him; 33 and he took him away from the crowd by himself and ran his fingers into his ears, and spat and touched his tongue, 34 and looked up into the sky and groaned and said to him “Ethpethah,” that is “Be opened.” 35* And his ears were opened, and at once the tie of his tongue was undone and he spoke rightly. 36 And he charged them not to tell anybody; but the more he charged them, all the more they proclaimed it. 37* And they were supremely astonished, saying “He has done well in everything: he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.”

8 In those days, when there was again a great crowd and they did not have anything to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them 2 “I feel for the crowd, because it is now three days they have been staying with me and not had anything to eat; 3 and if I dismiss them fasting, they will grow faint on the road; and some of them are from a long way off.” 4 And his disciples answered him “Where can one get these their fill of bread here in the wilderness?” 5 and he asked them “How much bread have you?” and they said “Seven cakes.” 6 And he instructed the crowd to take their places on the ground, and took the seven cakes and gave thanks and broke them and gave them to the disciples to put around; and they set them before the crowd. 7 And they had a few little fish; and he blessed these too and told them to put them around. 8 And they all ate and had their fill; and they took up surplus fragments, seven hampers. 9 And there were about four thousand of them. And he dismissed them, 10 and at once got into the boat with his disciples and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

11 And the Pharisees went out and began to debate with him, seeking from him a token from heaven, by way of testing him. 12* And he heaved a sigh and said “Why does this generation seek a token? I tell you verily this generation shall not be given a token”; 13 and he left them and went on board again and went off to the other side. 14 And they forgot to take bread, and had not but one cake with them in the boat. 15 And he was charging them “See that you keep clear of Pharisee yeast and Herod’s yeast”; 16* and they questioned together, saying that they had not bread. 17 And, finding it out, he said to them “Why are you questioning because you have not bread? do you not yet see the point nor understand? are your hearts caked into lumps? 18 having eyes, do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? and do you not remember 19* when I broke the five cakes of bread to be given out to the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments you took up?” They told him “Twelve.” 20 “When I broke the seven to be given out to the four thousand, how many hamperfuls of fragments did you take up?” and they said “Seven,” 21 And he said to them “Do you not understand yet?”

22 And they came to Bethsaida; and they brought him a blind man, and appealed to him to touch him. 23 And he took hold of the blind man’s hand and took him outside the village, and, spitting into his eyes and laying his hands on him, put the question to him “Can you see anything?” 24 and he looked up and said “I can see men, because I see creatures like trees walking.” 25 Then he laid his hands on his eyes again, and his eyesight was good, and he was restored and was able to see everything distinctly. 26 And he sent him home, saying “Do not even go into the village.”

27 And Jesus and his disciples went out to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road he questioned his disciples, asking them “Who do people say I am?” 28 And they told him “John the Baptist; and others Elijah; and others one of the prophets.” 29 And he put the question to them, “But who do you say I am?” Peter answered him “You are the Messiah.” 30 And he told them peremptorily not to tell anybody about him.

31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days; 32 and he made the statement openly. And Peter took him in hand and began to rebuke him; 33 but he, turning back and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter and said “Go behind me, Satan, because you do not have God’s ideas but men’s.”

34 And he called the crowd to him, with his disciples, and said to them “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him disown himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wishes to save his self will lose it, but whoever loses his self on my account and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what good does it do a man to make a profit of the whole world and a loss of his self? 37 for what should a man give as an equivalent for his self? 38 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man too will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

9* And he said to them “I tell you verily that there are some here standing among you who shall not taste death till they see the Reign of God begun in power.”

2 And after six days Jesus took Peter and James and John and brought them up on the side of a high mountain alone by themselves, and was transfigured before them; 3 and his clothes became glittering, exceedingly white, such as no fuller on earth can whiten so. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they talked with Jesus. 5 And Peter answered by saying to Jesus “Rabbi, it is a good thing we are here: let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”— 6 for he did not know what answer to make, because they were terrified. 7 And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, “This is my dear son, listen to him.” 8 And of a sudden they looked around and no longer saw any body but Jesus alone with themselves. 9 And as they were coming down from the mountain he charged them never to tell anybody the story of what they had seen till the Son of Man rose from the dead; 10 and they held the word fast to themselves, debating what rising from the dead was. 11 And they put the question to him “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” 12 and he said to them “Elijah comes first and restores everything—and how is it it is written about the Son of Man that he should suffer a great deal and be scorned? 13 But I tell you that Elijah has come and they have done to him whatever they wished, as is written about him.”

14 And when they got to the disciples they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes debating with them. 15 And at once all the crowd were taken aback at seeing him; and they ran up and greeted him, 16 and he put the question to them “What are you debating with them about?” 17 And one of the crowd answered him “Teacher, I have brought my son to you, that has a dumb spirit, 18 and wherever it gets at him it strikes him down, and he foams and sets his teeth hard and withers up; and I told your disciples to expel it and they were not able.” 19 And he answered them “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me”; 20 and they brought him to him. And upon seeing him the demon threw him into a convulsion at once, and he fell on the ground and rolled there foaming. 21 And he questioned his father, “How long has he had this?” and he said “Since his childhood; 22 and it has often thrown him into fire and into water, to make away with him; but if you can do anything have pity on us and help us.” 23 And Jesus said to him “‘If you can’! Everything is possible to him who believes!” 24 At once the child’s father gave a cry “I believe; help my unbelievingness.” 25 And Jesus, seeing that a crowd was running up, said peremptorily to the unclean spirit “Dumb and deaf spirit, I order you, come out of him and do not come into him again.” 26 And with a scream and many convulsions it came out, and he became as if dead, so that most of them said he was dead; 27 but Jesus grasped his hand and raised him, and he stood up.

28 And when he came indoors and they were by themselves his disciples put the question to him “How was it we could not expel it?” 29 and he said to them “This kind cannot be got out by anything but prayer.”

30 And they went out from there and went along through Galilee; and he would not have anyone know of it, 31 for he was teaching his disciples and telling them that the Son of Man was to be given up into the hands of men, and they would kill him, and when he had been killed he would rise after three days. 32 But they failed to understand the word, and were afraid to question him.

33 And they came to Capernaum; and when he got into the house he put the question to them “What were you talking over on the road?” 34 But they were silent, for they had been arguing together on the road about which was greatest. 35 And he sat down and called the Twelve and said to them “If one means to be first, he shall be last of all and serving-man to all.” 36 And he took a child and set it in the middle among them, and, putting his arms around it, said to them 37* “Anybody who receives one of the children in my name is receiving me, and anybody who receives me is receiving not me but him who sent me.” 38 John said to him “Teacher, we saw somebody expelling demons in your name, and we stopped him because he did not follow us.” 39 But Jesus said “Do not stop him, for there is no one who will work a miracle in my name and be able to go right to abusing me. 40 For he who is not against us is for us. 41* For anybody who gives you a cup of water to drink on the ground that you belong to the Messiah, I tell you verily, shall not lose his reward; 42 and anybody who trips up one of these little ones who believe, it would sooner be a good thing for him if he had an ass-power millstone hanging round his neck and had been thrown into the sea. 43 And if your hand trips you up, cut it off: it is better that you pass into life one-armed than that with both your hands you should go into hell, into the inextinguishable fire. 44 —— 45 And if your foot trips you up, cut it off: it is better that you pass into life a cripple than that with both your feet you should be thrown into hell. 46 —— 47 And if your eye trips you up, tear it out; it is better that you pass into the Reign of God one-eyed than that with two eyes you should be thrown into hell, 48* where their worm does not die and their fire does not go out. 49* For everyone shall be salted with fire. 50 Salt is a good thing, but if the salt has lost its saltness what will you season it with? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with each other.”

10 And he went away from there and came into the territory of Judea and the other side of the Jordan; and crowds collected around him again, and he taught them again as was his custom. And 2 Pharisees approached him and put the question to him, to test him, whether it is lawful for a husband to divorce a wife. 3 But he answered them “What commands did Moses give you?” 4 And they said “Moses permitted writing a certificate of separation and divorcing her;” 5 But Jesus said to them “It was in view of your obduracy that he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the first of the creation he ‘made them male and female’; 7 ‘for this a man shall leave his father and mother, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so that they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 So let not a man part what God has joined.” 10 And when they got into the house the disciples questioned him again about this; 11 and he said to them “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another she commits adultery.”

13 And they brought children to him to have him touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. 14 But Jesus was offended at seeing it, and said to them “Let the children come to me, do not interfere with them; for to such belongs the Reign of God. 15 I tell you verily, anyone who does not receive the Reign of God like a child shall not get into it.” 16 And he took them in his arms and covered them with blessings, putting his hands on them.

17 And as he was going out on the road, one ran up and knelt before him and put the question to him “Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 But Jesus said to him “Why do you call me good? nobody is good except one, God. 19 You know the commandments, ‘Do not commit murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not testify falsely, do not keep back payments, honor your father and mother.’” 20 But he said to him “Teacher, I have kept from all these ever since my youth.” 21 And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him “You have one shortcoming: go sell everything you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have a fund laid by in heaven; and come and follow me.” 22* But he was dismayed at the words, and went away grieving; for he owned great possessions.

23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples “What hard work the wealthy will have to get into the Reign of God!” 24 and the disciples were amazed at his words; but Jesus answered them again “Children, how hard it is to get into the Reign of God! 25 it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Reign of God.” 26 And they were extremely astonished, saying to each other “And who can be saved?” 27 Jesus looked at them and said “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for everything is possible with God.”

28 Peter began to say to him “We here did leave everything and followed you.” 29 Said Jesus, “I tell you verily, there is nobody who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands on my account and the gospel’s 30 but shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the coming age eternal life. 31 But many of the first will be last, and the last first.”

32 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus going ahead of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. And he took the Twelve with him again and began to tell them the things that were to befall him: 33 “here we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be put into the hands of the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the foreigners, 34 and they will outrage him and spit on him and flog him and kill him, and after three days he will rise.”

35* And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, went to him and said to him “Teacher, we want you to do for us what we shall ask you.” 36 And he said to them “What do you want me to do for you?” 37 And they said to him “Grant us that we shall sit one on your right hand and one on your left in your glory.” 38 But Jesus said to them “You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or go under the water that I am going under?” 39 And they said to him “We can.” And Jesus said to them “The cup that I am drinking you shall drink, and shall go under the water that I am going under; 40 but the sitting on my right or on my left is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it has been prepared.” 41 And at hearing of it the ten began to be offended with James and John; 42 and Jesus called them to him and said to them “You know that those who are thought to head the nations lord it over them and their great men domineer over them. 43 But it is not so among you, but anyone who wishes to be great among you shall be your serving-man, 44 and anyone who wishes to be first among you shall be everybody’s slave; 45 for so did the Son of Man come not to be waited on but to wait on the needs of others, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

46 And they came to Jericho; and as he was going out of Jericho, and his disciples and a considerable crowd, Bartimeus the son of Timeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside; and, 47 hearing that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out “Jesus, son of David, take pity on me!” 48 And many rebuked him, telling him to be still; but he cried out more and more “Son of David, take pity on me!” 49 And Jesus stopped and said “Call him”; and they called the blind man, saying to him “All right, rise, he is calling for you”; 50 and he, throwing off his cloak, sprang up and came to Jesus. 51 And Jesus answered him “What do you want me to do for you?” and the blind man said to him “Rabbuni, that I may have my eyesight back.” 52 And Jesus said to him “Go; your faith has made you well,” and at once he recovered his sight and followed him along the road.

11* And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them “Go to the village opposite you, and at once as you are entering it you will find a colt hitched, on which no man ever yet sat; unhitch it and bring it. 3 And if anybody says to you ‘Why are you doing that?’ say ‘The Lord needs it; and he will send it back here at once.’” 4 And they went, and found a colt hitched at a door, out in the roadway, and went to unhitching it; 5 and some of those who were standing there said to them “What are you doing untying the colt?” 6 but they told them what Jesus told them to, and they let them alone. 7 And they brought the colt to Jesus and laid their cloaks on it, and he took his seat on it. 8 And many spread their cloaks in the road, and others green things that they cut from the fields; 9 and those who went ahead and who followed were crying “Hosanna! 10 blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; blessed is the reign that is coming, our father David’s; hosanna on high!”

11 And he came into Jerusalem and into the temple-precinct; and he looked around at everything, and, the hour being already late, went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

12 And when they came out from Bethany on the following day, he felt hungry, 13 and, seeing at a distance a fig-tree with leaves, went to see if he might find anything on it. And when he came to it he found nothing but leaves; for it was not time for figs. 14 And he answered by saying to it “Never again let anyone eat fruit from you”; and his disciples heard him.

15 And they came to Jerusalem; and he went into the temple-precinct and began to turn out those who were selling and buying in the precinct, and threw down the money-changers’ tables and the pigeon-sellers’ seats, 16 and would not let anybody carry an article through the precinct; 17 and he taught and said to them “Is it not written ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? but you have made it a robbers’ cave”; 18 and the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and tried to find a way to destroy him; for they were afraid of him, for all the crowd was astonished over his teaching.

19* And when it grew late they went out outside the city.

20 And as they were going past in the morning they saw the fig-tree withered to the root; 21 and Peter recollected about it and said to him “Rabbi, there is the fig-tree that you cursed withered up.” 22 And Jesus answered by saying to them “Have faith in God; 23 I tell you verily that anyone who says to this mountain ‘Be taken up and be thrown into the sea,’ and does not inwardly doubt but believes that what he utters will be done, shall have it so. 24 Accordingly I tell you, everything that you pray and ask for, believe that you have got it and you shall have it. 25 And when you stand praying, forgive whatever you have against anybody, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your offenses.”

26 —— 27 And they came into Jerusalem again; and as he was walking in the temple-precinct the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him 28 and said to him “By what authority are you doing these things? or who gave you this authority to do these things?” 29 But Jesus said to them “I will put one question to you; answer me and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 30 Was John’s baptizing from heaven or from men? answer me.” 31* And they went over the question to themselves, thinking “If we say ‘From heaven’ he will say ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ 32 but shall we say ‘From men’?”—they were afraid of the populace, for one and all looked on John as having been a real prophet. 33 And they answered Jesus “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them “And neither do I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

12 And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man set out a vineyard, and put a fence round it and dug out a receiver for the wine and built a tower, and rented it to farmers and went abroad. 2 And at the proper date he sent a servant to receive from the farmers some of the produce of the vineyard; 3 and they took him and gave him a beating and sent him off empty-handed. 4 And again he sent another servant to them; and they broke that one’s head and insulted him. 5 And he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some. 6 He had one left, a dear son; he sent him to them last, thinking ‘They will have some respect for my son,’ 7 But those farmers said to each other ‘This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours’; 8 and they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. 9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? he will come and kill off the farmers, and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not even read this text, ‘The stone that the builders condemned, that stone has come to be the top of the corner: 11 this was from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes’?” 12* And they tried to seize him; and they were afraid of the crowd—for they perceived that he had aimed the parable at them—and let him go and went away.

13 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to fish for him with talk; 14 and they came and said to him “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and care for nobody, for you do not look at men’s faces but teach the way of God in good faith: is paying taxes to Caesar lawful or unlawful? 15 shall we pay or shall we not?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them “Why are you trying tricks on me? bring me a denarius so that I can see it.” 16 And they brought one. And he said to them “Whose is this portrait and this inscription?” and they said to him “Caesar’s.” 17 And Jesus said to them “Pay what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.” And they admired him.

18 And Sadducees, who say there is no such thing as a resurrection, came to him and put the question to him 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if one’s brother dies and leaves a widow behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take his widow and set up a posterity for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and left no issue at his death, 21 and the second took her and died without leaving any issue behind, and the third in the same way, 22 and the seven left no issue. Last of all, the woman died too. 23 At the resurrection, when they rise, which of them will she be the wife of? for the seven had her as wife.” 24 Said Jesus to them, “Is not this why you go wrong, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God? 25 for when they rise from the dead they do not marry but are like angels in heaven. 26 But as to the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the part about the bush, how God told him ‘I am the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob’? 27 He is not the God of dead men but of living men. You are very far wrong.”

41 And he sat down opposite the treasury and looked at the way in which the crowd dropped coins into the treasury; and many rich men dropped in a great deal. 42 And one poor widow came and dropped in two mites, that is, a farthing. 43 And he called his disciples to him and said to them “I tell you verily that this poor widow dropped in more than any of those who have been dropping into the treasury; 44 for they all of them dropped in part of what they had to spare, but she out of her destitution dropped in everything she had, her whole living.”

13 And as he was on his way out of the temple-precinct, one of his disciples said to him “Teacher, look what stones and what architecture!” 2 And Jesus said to him “You see this great architecture? there shall not be one stone left on another that shall not be torn down.” 3 And when he was sitting on the side of the Mount of Olives opposite the temple-precinct Peter and James and John and Andrew put the question to him as they were by themselves, 4 “Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign when all this is to come to its end?” 5 And Jesus began to say to them “Look out that no one deludes you; 6 many will come under my name, saying that it is I, and delude many. 7 And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be disquieted; they have to come, but it is not yet the end. 8 For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, there will be earthquakes in one place and another, there will be famines; this is the beginning of the birth-pangs. 9 But look out for your own selves; for they will have you arrested and taken into court, and you will be whipped in synagogues and set before governors and kings on my account, for an attestation to them.— 10 And the gospel must be proclaimed first among all the nations.— 11 And when they arrest you and carry you off, do not fret beforehand over what you are to speak, but whatever is given you at the moment, that speak; for it is not you that are speaking but the Holy Spirit.— 12 And a brother will have a brother arrested and put to death, and a father a child; and children will stand up against parents and have them put to death; 13 and you will be hated by all because of my name; but he who holds out to the end, he will come safe through.

14 “But when you see the desolating abomination standing where it ought not (let the reader note), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; 15 let him who is on the roof not go down or in to take away anything from his house, 16 and let him who is in the field not go back to pick up his cloak; 17 and woe to women who are pregnant and nursing in those days! 18 But pray that it may not come in winter; 19 for those days will be a distress such as there has not been from the beginning of God’s creation till now, nor shall be. 20 And if the Lord had not cut the days short, no flesh would have come safe through; but because of the chosen whom he had singled out he did cut the days short. 21 And then if anybody says to you ‘here is the Messiah in this place,’ ‘here he is in that,’ do not believe it; 22* for there will arise pretended Messiahs and pretended prophets, and they will exhibit tokens and wonders to lead the chosen astray if possible. 23 But you are to look out: I have told you everything beforehand.

24 “But in those days, after that distress, the sun will turn dark and the moon will not give its radiance, 25 and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken; 26 and then will they see the Son of Man coming among clouds with great power and glory; 27* and then will he send out the angels and gather his chosen from the four winds, from the extremity of the earth to the extremity of the heavens.

28 “But learn from the fig-tree this parable: when its twigs come to turn tender and put out their leaves you know that the summer is near; 29 so you too, when you see these things taking place, are to know that he is near, at the doors. 30 I tell you verily that this generation shall not pass away until all this takes place. 31 The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words will not. 32 But as to that day or that hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but the Father. 33 Look to it, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the time is. 34* As a man going abroad, leaving his house and giving commissions to his servants, to each one his work, gave the doorman too a command, to keep awake— 35 keep awake then, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether at evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or at morning; 36 lest he should come all of a sudden and find you asleep. 37 And what I am saying to you I am saying to everybody: keep awake!”

14 And after two days it would be passover and matzoth-time; and the chief priests and scribes were trying to find a way to seize him by trickery and kill him; 2 for they said “Not during the feast, for fear there should be a disturbance among the people.” 3* And while he was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, while he was at the table a woman came with an alabaster vial of expensive perfume, nard in pistachio oil. She crushed the vial and poured it over his head. 4* But there were some who took offense and said to each other “To what purpose has this waste of the perfume been made? 5 for this perfume might have been sold for above three hundred denarii and given to the poor”; and they spoke sternly to her. 6 But Jesus said “Let her be; why are you worrying her? she has done a good deed by me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and can do good to them when you choose, but me you do not always have. 8 She did what she had the power to; she scented my body beforehand for burial; 9 and I tell you verily, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she did will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.” 10 And Judas Iscarioth, the Judas Iscarioth who was one of the Twelve, went off to the chief priests to put him into their hands; 11 and they were glad to hear his proposition, and promised to give him money, and he went to looking for a way to deliver him to them under favorable circumstances.

12 And on the first day of matzoth-time, when they killed the sheep for the passover, his disciples said to him “Where will you have us go and make the preparations for you to eat the passover?” 13* And he sent two of his disciples and said to them “Go into the city, and you will meet with a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him, 14 and where he goes in say to the man of the house ‘The teacher says “Where is my room where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?”’ 15* and he will show you a large upper room, ready spread; make our preparations there.” 16 And the disciples went out and came into the city and found what he told them they would, and got ready the passover; 17 and when evening came he came with the Twelve.

18* And while they were at the table eating, Jesus said “I tell you verily that one of you will have me arrested, he who is eating with me.” 19 They began to be pained and to say to him one by one “Am I the one?” 20* and he said to them “One of the Twelve, one who dips into the dish with me— 21 because the Son of Man goes as is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is put under arrest; it would have been well for that man if he had not been born.”

22 And while they were eating he took a cake of bread, and pronounced the blessing and broke it and gave it to them, and said “Take this: this is my body.” 23 And he took a cup, and gave thanks over it and gave it to them, and they all drank from it; 24 and he said to them “This is my covenant blood poured out for many. 25 I tell you verily I will drink of this produce of the vine no more till that day when I drink it new in the Reign of God.”

26 And they sang the hymns and went out to the Mount of Olives. 27 And Jesus said to them “You will all be staggered, because it is written ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter’; 28 but after my rising I will go ahead of you to Galilee.” 29 But Peter said to him “Even if everybody will be staggered, yet I will not.” 30 And Jesus said to him “I tell you verily that you today, this night before a cock has crowed twice, will disown me three times.” 31 But he talked and talked, “If I have to die with you I will not disown you”; and so said all of them.

32 And they came to an enclosure of which the name was Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be dismayed and uneasy, 34 and said to them “My soul is sad, deathly sad; stay here, and keep awake.” 35 And he went a little further, and threw himself down on the earth, and prayed that if it was possible the moment might pass away from him, 36 and said “Abba, Father, everything is possible to you: pass by me with this cup. But not what I will, but what you.” 37 And he came and found them asleep, and said to Peter “Simon, are you asleep? were you not able to keep awake one moment? 38* Keep awake and pray, that you may not fall under temptation: the spirit is enthusiastic but the flesh is weak.” 39 And he went away again and prayed, saying the same thing; 40 and again he came and found them asleep, for their eyes were weighed down; and they did not know what answer to make to him. 41 And he came the third time and said to them “Well, then, sleep and rest; that will do; the moment has come; lo, the Son of Man is given up into the hands of the sinners— 42 rise, let us be going; here is the one who gives me up to them, coming right on.”

43 And at once, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, and with him a crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. 44 And the one who was giving him up had given them a cue, telling them “Whichever I kiss is he; take him and get him safely away.” 45 And when he came, at once he went up to him and said “Rabbi,” and went to kissing him; 46 and they put their hands on him and took him. 47 But someone of those who were present drew his sword and struck the high priest’s servant and took off his ear. 48 And Jesus answered them “You come out as if it were against a robber, with swords and sticks, to arrest me; 49 I had been among you in the temple-precinct day by day teaching, and you did not take me. But it is in order that the scriptures may be fulfilled.” 50 And everybody left him and ran. 51 And a young man went along with him, who had a linen wrapper on his naked body; 52 and they seized him, but he ran away naked, leaving the wrapper.

53* And they took Jesus to the high priest’s house; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. 54 And Peter had followed him at a distance clear into the high priest’s courtyard, and was sitting with the officers and warming himself in the light. 55 And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for testimony against Jesus for putting him to death, and did not find any; 56 for a great many were testifying against him falsely, and the testimonies did not tally. 57 And some stood up and testified falsely against him 58 “We heard him say ‘I will tear down this temple made by hands and in three days build another not made by hands’”; 59 and even so their testimony did not tally. 60* And the high priest stood forward and put the question to Jesus “Do you not make any answer? what is it that these are testifying against you?” 61 but he was silent and did not make any answer. Again the high priest put to him the question “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed?” 62 And Jesus said “I am, and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of the heavens.” 63 And the high priest, tearing his tunics, said “What further need have we of witnesses? 64 you heard the blasphemy, what is your opinion?” And they all found him guilty and punishable with death. 65 And some began to spit on him and to cover up his face and strike him with their fists and say to him “Prophesy!” and the officers received him with slaps.

66 And while Peter was below in the courtyard one of the high priest’s maids came, 67 and, seeing Peter warming himself, looked at him and said “You were with the Nazarene too, that Jesus.” 68 But he denied it, saying “I do not know and have not the least idea what you are talking of.” And he went out into the entry of the courtyard, 69 and the maid saw him and began to say again to the bystanders “That is one of them,” 70 and he denied it again. And after a little the bystanders said to Peter again “You positively are one of them—for you are a Galilean.” 71 And he began to curse and swear “I do not know this man that you are talking of.” 72 And at once a cock crowed, for the second time. And Peter recalled the matter, how Jesus had said to him “Before a cock has crowed twice you will disown me three times”; and he broke out weeping.

15 And at once in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin, got their scheme ready and bound Jesus and brought him to Pilate and handed him over to him. 2 And Pilate put the question to him, “Are you the ‘king of the Jews’?” and he answered him “As you say.” 3 And the chief priests accused him vehemently; 4 and Pilate questioned him again, “Do you not make any answer? see at what a rate they are accusing you”; 5 but Jesus no longer made any answer, so that Pilate wondered.

6 And every feast-time he used to release to them one prisoner whom they begged off. 7 And the man known as Bar-Abbas was in custody with the rioters, who had committed murder in the riot. 8 And the crowd went up and began to ask for what he used to do for them; 9 and Pilate answered them “Will you have me release for you the King of the Jews?” 10 for he was aware that it was out of jealousy that the chief priests had had him arrested. 11 But the chief priests hounded the crowd on to have him release Bar-Abbas for them instead. 12 And Pilate answered them again “Then what shall I do with the one that you call the King of the Jews?” 13 but they screamed again “Crucify him.” 14 And Pilate said to them “Why, what harm has he done?” but they screamed more and more “Crucify him.” 15 And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Bar-Abbas for them, but scourged Jesus and gave him in charge to be crucified.

28 —— 29 And those who went past taunted him, shaking their heads and saying “Wow! you that were tearing down the temple and building it up in three days, 30 save yourself by getting down off the cross!” 31** In the same way the chief priests too, making fun of him to each other with the scribes, said “He saved others; he cannot save himself! 32 Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, get down off the cross now, that we may see it and believe;” And those who were crucified with him twitted him.

33 And when twelve o’clock came there came a darkness all over the land till three. 34 And at three o’clock Jesus shrieked loudly “Elohí, Elohí, lamá shabaktáni?” which means “My God, my God, wherefore hast thou abandoned me?” 35 And some of those who were present said when they heard it “Hark, he is calling Eliah” [for that was the way Elijah’s name was then pronounced]. 36 And somebody ran and filled a sponge with vinegar and stuck it on a reed, and offered him the drink, saying “Just let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down.” 37 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and expired; 38 and the curtain of the temple split in two from top to bottom. 39* And at seeing that he expired like that, the centurion who was there standing across the way from him said “This man positively was the son of God.”

40 And there were also women looking on from a distance; among them Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of little James and of Jose, and Salome, 41 those who when he was in Galilee followed him and supplied his needs, and many others who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

42 And when evening had now come, since it was Friday, the day before the sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin and a man of high standing in the community, who was himself watching for the Reign of God, plucked up courage to go into Pilate’s presence and ask for Jesus’s body. 44 And Pilate wondered that he should be already dead, and called in the centurion and questioned him as to whether he had been dead long; 45 and, having found this out from the centurion, he presented Joseph with the corpse. 46 And he bought a linen wrapper and took him down and did him up in the wrapper and placed him in a tomb that had been cut out of a rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47 And Mary the Magdalene and Jose’s Mary saw where he was laid.

16 And when the sabbath was over, Mary the Magdalene and James’s Mary and Salome bought spices to come and anoint him; 2 and extremely early on the first day of the week they came to the tomb when the sun was up. 3* And they were saying to each other “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?” 4 and they looked up and saw that the stone was rolled back. For it was very large. 5 And they entered the tomb and saw a young man sitting on the right, clad in a white robe; and they were dismayed. 6 But he said to them “Do not be dismayed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, the one who was crucified; he has risen, he is not here; there is the place where they laid him. 7 But go tell his disciples and Peter ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you shall see him, as he told you.’” 8 And they went out and ran away from the tomb; for trepidation and surprise possessed them. And they said nothing to anybody, for they were afraid.

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9 And, having risen on the first day of the week early in the morning, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene, from whom he had expelled seven demons. 10 She, going to those who had been with him, reported it to them as they were mourning and weeping; 11 and they, hearing that he was alive and had been seen by her, disbelieved.

12 And after this he made his appearance in another form to two of them as they were walking, going into the country; 13 and they went and reported it to the rest, and they did not believe these either.

14* And later he made his appearance to the Eleven themselves as they were at the table, and reproached their incredulity and obduracy, that they had not believed those who had seen him risen. 15 And he said to them “Go into the entire world and proclaim the gospel to all the creation. 16 He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who disbelieves shall be condemned. 17 And those who believe shall have these tokens accompanying them: by my name they shall expel demons; they shall speak new languages; 18 they shall take up snakes, and if they drink anything deadly it shall not harm them; they shall lay their hands on invalids and these shall get well.”

19 So the Lord Jesus, after speaking to them, was taken up to heaven and seated at God’s right hand; 20 and they went out and made their proclamation everywhere, the Lord cooperating and confirming the word through the attendant tokens.

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