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+Book 41 Mark
+001:001 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
+001:002 As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger
+        before your face, who will prepare your way before you.{Malachi 3:1}
+001:003 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make ready the way
+        of the Lord!  Make his paths straight!'"{Isaiah 40:3}
+001:004 John came baptizing{or, immersing} in the wilderness and preaching
+        the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
+001:005 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went
+        out to him.  They were baptized by him in the Jordan river,
+        confessing their sins.
+001:006 John was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt around
+        his waist.  He ate locusts and wild honey.
+001:007 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier
+        than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop
+        down and loosen.
+001:008 I baptized you in{The Greek word (en) translated here as "in"
+        could also be translated as "with" in some contexts.} water,
+        but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."
+001:009 It happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth
+        of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
+001:010 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting,
+        and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
+001:011 A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom
+        I am well pleased."
+001:012 Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
+001:013 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan.
+        He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.
+001:014 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee,
+        preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God,
+001:015 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God
+        is at hand!  Repent, and believe in the Good News."
+001:016 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and
+        Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea,
+        for they were fishermen.
+001:017 Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into
+        fishers for men."
+001:018 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
+001:019 Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son
+        of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat
+        mending the nets.
+001:020 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee,
+        in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
+001:021 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day
+        he entered into the synagogue and taught.
+001:022 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them
+        as having authority, and not as the scribes.
+001:023 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit,
+        and he cried out,
+001:024 saying, "Ha!  What do we have to do with you, Jesus,
+        you Nazarene?  Have you come to destroy us?  I know you who you are:
+        the Holy One of God!"
+001:025 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"
+001:026 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice,
+        came out of him.
+001:027 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among
+        themselves, saying, "What is this?  A new teaching?
+        For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits,
+        and they obey him!"
+001:028 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all
+        the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.
+001:029 Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came
+        into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
+001:030 Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately
+        they told him about her.
+001:031 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up.
+        The fever left her, and she served them.
+001:032 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all
+        who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.
+001:033 All the city was gathered together at the door.
+001:034 He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast
+        out many demons.  He didn't allow the demons to speak,
+        because they knew him.
+001:035 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose
+        up and went out, and departed into a deserted place,
+        and prayed there.
+001:036 Simon and those who were with him followed after him;
+001:037 and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."
+001:038 He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I
+        may preach there also, because I came out for this reason."
+001:039 He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee,
+        preaching and casting out demons.
+001:040 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him,
+        and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."
+001:041 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand,
+        and touched him, and said to him, "I want to.  Be made clean."
+001:042 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him,
+        and he was made clean.
+001:043 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,
+001:044 and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show
+        yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things
+        which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
+001:045 But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread
+        about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly
+        enter into a city, but was outside in desert places:
+        and they came to him from everywhere.
+002:001 When he entered again into Capernaum after some days,
+        it was heard that he was in the house.
+002:002 Immediately many were gathered together, so that there
+        was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke
+        the word to them.
+002:003 Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
+002:004 When they could not come near to him for the crowd,
+        they removed the roof where he was.  When they had broken it up,
+        they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
+002:005 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins
+        are forgiven you."
+002:006 But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning
+        in their hearts,
+002:007 "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that?
+        Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
+002:008 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so
+        reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason
+        these things in your hearts?
+002:009 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;'
+        or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
+002:010 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth
+        to forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic--
+002:011 "I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house."
+002:012 He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went
+        out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed,
+        and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
+002:013 He went out again by the seaside.  All the multitude came to him,
+        and he taught them.
+002:014 As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus,
+        sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me."
+        And he arose and followed him.
+002:015 It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house,
+        and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and
+        his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
+002:016 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating
+        with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples,
+        "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
+002:017 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy
+        have no need for a physician, but those who are sick.
+        I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
+002:018 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came
+        and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples
+        of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
+002:019 Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom
+        is with them?  As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
+        they can't fast.
+002:020 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away
+        from them, and then will they fast in that day.
+002:021 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment,
+        or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old,
+        and a worse hole is made.
+002:022 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine
+        will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins
+        will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
+002:023 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through
+        the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went,
+        to pluck the ears of grain.
+002:024 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which
+        is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
+002:025 He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need,
+        and was hungry--he, and those who were with him?
+002:026 How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest,
+        and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except
+        for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"
+002:027 He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man
+        for the Sabbath.
+002:028 Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."
+003:001 He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there
+        who had his hand withered.
+003:002 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day,
+        that they might accuse him.
+003:003 He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."
+003:004 He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to
+        do good, or to do harm?  To save a life, or to kill?"
+        But they were silent.
+003:005 When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved
+        at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man,
+        "Stretch out your hand."  He stretched it out, and his hand
+        was restored as healthy as the other.
+003:006 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the
+        Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
+003:007 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great
+        multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,
+003:008 from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from
+        around Tyre and Sidon.  A great multitude, hearing what great
+        things he did, came to him.
+003:009 He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near
+        him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
+003:010 For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed
+        on him that they might touch him.
+003:011 The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him,
+        and cried, "You are the Son of God!"
+003:012 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
+003:013 He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom
+        he wanted, and they went to him.
+003:014 He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that
+        he might send them out to preach,
+003:015 and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
+003:016 Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;
+003:017 James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James,
+        and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;
+003:018 Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son
+        of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;
+003:019 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.  He came into a house.
+003:020 The multitude came together again, so that they could not
+        so much as eat bread.
+003:021 When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him:
+        for they said, "He is insane."
+003:022 The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul,"
+        and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."
+003:023 He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan
+        cast out Satan?
+003:024 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
+003:025 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
+003:026 If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided,
+        he can't stand, but has an end.
+003:027 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder,
+        unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will
+        plunder his house.
+003:028 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man
+        will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which
+        they may blaspheme;
+003:029 but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never
+        has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
+003:030 --because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
+003:031 His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside,
+        they sent to him, calling him.
+003:032 A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold,
+        your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your
+        sisters"} are outside looking for you."
+003:033 He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
+003:034 Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold,
+        my mother and my brothers!
+003:035 For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother,
+        and my sister, and mother."
+004:001 Again he began to teach by the seaside.  A great multitude was
+        gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea,
+        and sat down.  All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
+004:002 He taught them many things in parables, and told them
+        in his teaching,
+004:003 "Listen!  Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
+004:004 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road,
+        and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it.
+004:005 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil,
+        and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
+004:006 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had
+        no root, it withered away.
+004:007 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up,
+        and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
+004:008 Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit,
+        growing up and increasing.  Some brought forth thirty times,
+        some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."
+004:009 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
+004:010 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve
+        asked him about the parables.
+004:011 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God,
+        but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
+004:012 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they
+        may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again,
+        and their sins should be forgiven them.'"{Isaiah 6:9-10}
+004:013 He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable?
+        How will you understand all of the parables?
+004:014 The farmer sows the word.
+004:015 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown;
+        and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes
+        away the word which has been sown in them.
+004:016 These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places,
+        who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive
+        it with joy.
+004:017 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When
+        oppression or persecution arises because of the word,
+        immediately they stumble.
+004:018 Others are those who are sown among the thorns.
+        These are those who have heard the word,
+004:019 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches,
+        and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word,
+        and it becomes unfruitful.
+004:020 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear
+        the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times,
+        some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
+004:021 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under
+        a basket{literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket
+        containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed?
+        Isn't it put on a stand?
+004:022 For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known;
+        neither was anything made secret, but that it should
+        come to light.
+004:023 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
+004:024 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear.  With whatever
+        measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more
+        will be given to you who hear.
+004:025 For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have,
+        even that which he has will be taken away from him."
+004:026 He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed
+        on the earth,
+004:027 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should
+        spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.
+004:028 For the earth bears fruit:  first the blade, then the ear,
+        then the full grain in the ear.
+004:029 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle,
+        because the harvest has come."
+004:030 He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God?  Or with what
+        parable will we illustrate it?
+004:031 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown
+        in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are
+        on the earth,
+004:032 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all
+        the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds
+        of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
+004:033 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they
+        were able to hear it.
+004:034 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately
+        to his own disciples he explained everything.
+004:035 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go
+        over to the other side."
+004:036 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was,
+        in the boat.  Other small boats were also with him.
+004:037 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat,
+        so much that the boat was already filled.
+004:038 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion,
+        and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care
+        that we are dying?"
+004:039 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace!
+        Be still!"  The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
+004:040 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid?  How is it that you
+        have no faith?"
+004:041 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then
+        is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
+005:001 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country
+        of the Gadarenes.
+005:002 When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him
+        out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
+005:003 who had his dwelling in the tombs.  Nobody could bind him any more,
+        not even with chains,
+005:004 because he had been often bound with fetters and chains,
+        and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters
+        broken in pieces.  Nobody had the strength to tame him.
+005:005 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains,
+        he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
+005:006 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
+005:007 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do
+        with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God?  I adjure you
+        by God, don't torment me."
+005:008 For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
+005:009 He asked him, "What is your name?"  He said to him, "My name
+        is Legion, for we are many."
+005:010 He begged him much that he would not send them away out
+        of the country.
+005:011 Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding.
+005:012 All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs,
+        that we may enter into them."
+005:013 At once Jesus gave them permission.  The unclean spirits came
+        out and entered into the pigs.  The herd of about two thousand
+        rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned
+        in the sea.
+005:014 Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
+        The people came to see what it was that had happened.
+005:015 They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed
+        by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him
+        who had the legion; and they were afraid.
+005:016 Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him
+        who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.
+005:017 They began to beg him to depart from their region.
+005:018 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed
+        by demons begged him that he might be with him.
+005:019 He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house,
+        to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord
+        has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."
+005:020 He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus
+        had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
+005:021 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side,
+        a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
+005:022 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came;
+        and seeing him, he fell at his feet,
+005:023 and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at
+        the point of death.  Please come and lay your hands on her,
+        that she may be made healthy, and live."
+005:024 He went with him, and a great multitude followed him,
+        and they pressed upon him on all sides.
+005:025 A certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
+005:026 and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent
+        all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
+005:027 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him
+        in the crowd, and touched his clothes.
+005:028 For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well."
+005:029 Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt
+        in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
+005:030 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had
+        gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked,
+        "Who touched my clothes?"
+005:031 His disciples said to him, "You see the multitude pressing
+        against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
+005:032 He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
+005:033 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been
+        done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him
+        all the truth.
+005:034 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well.
+        Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."
+005:035 While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue
+        ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead.  Why bother
+        the Teacher any more?"
+005:036 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said
+        to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe."
+005:037 He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John
+        the brother of James.
+005:038 He came to the synagogue ruler's house, and he saw an uproar,
+        weeping, and great wailing.
+005:039 When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make
+        an uproar and weep?  The child is not dead, but is asleep."
+005:040 They ridiculed him.  But he, having put them all out,
+        took the father of the child and her mother and those who were
+        with him, and went in where the child was lying.
+005:041 Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi;"
+        which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up."
+005:042 Immediately the girl rose up, and walked, for she was twelve
+        years old.  They were amazed with great amazement.
+005:043 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this,
+        and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
+006:001 He went out from there.  He came into his own country,
+        and his disciples followed him.
+006:002 When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue,
+        and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this
+        man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given
+        to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
+006:003 Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of
+        James, Joses, Judah, and Simon?  Aren't his sisters here with us?"
+        They were offended at him.
+006:004 Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor,
+        except in his own country, and among his own relatives,
+        and in his own house."
+006:005 He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands
+        on a few sick people, and healed them.
+006:006 He marveled because of their unbelief.  He went around
+        the villages teaching.
+006:007 He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two
+        by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
+006:008 He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey,
+        except a staff only:  no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
+006:009 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
+006:010 He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there
+        until you depart from there.
+006:011 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart
+        from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet
+        for a testimony against them.  Assuredly, I tell you,
+        it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day
+        of judgment than for that city!"
+006:012 They went out and preached that people should repent.
+006:013 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick,
+        and healed them.
+006:014 King Herod heard this, for his name had become known,
+        and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead,
+        and therefore these powers are at work in him."
+006:015 But others said, "It is Elijah."  Others said, "It is the Prophet,
+        or like one of the prophets."
+006:016 But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded.
+        He has risen from the dead."
+006:017 For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him
+        in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,
+        for he had married her.
+006:018 For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have
+        your brother's wife."
+006:019 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him,
+        but she couldn't,
+006:020 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man,
+        and kept him safe.  When he heard him, he did many things,
+        and he heard him gladly.
+006:021 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made
+        a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief
+        men of Galilee.
+006:022 When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced,
+        she pleased Herod and those sitting with him.
+        The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want,
+        and I will give it to you."
+006:023 He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you,
+        up to half of my kingdom."
+006:024 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?"
+        She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
+006:025 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked,
+        "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer
+        on a platter."
+006:026 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths,
+        and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
+006:027 Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard,
+        and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded
+        him in the prison,
+006:028 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady;
+        and the young lady gave it to her mother.
+006:029 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse,
+        and laid it in a tomb.
+006:030 The apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and they
+        told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever
+        they had taught.
+006:031 He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place,
+        and rest awhile."  For there were many coming and going,
+        and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
+006:032 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
+006:033 They{TR reads "The multitudes" instead of "They"} saw them going,
+        and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities.
+        They arrived before them and came together to him.
+006:034 Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion
+        on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd,
+        and he began to teach them many things.
+006:035 When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said,
+        "This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
+006:036 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country
+        and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have
+        nothing to eat."
+006:037 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat."
+        They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii{200
+        denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural
+        laborer.} worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
+006:038 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have?  Go see."
+        When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
+006:039 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups
+        on the green grass.
+006:040 They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.
+006:041 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven,
+        he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples
+        to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
+006:042 They all ate, and were filled.
+006:043 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also
+        of the fish.
+006:044 Those who ate the loaves were{TR adds "about"} five thousand men.
+006:045 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go
+        ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent
+        the multitude away.
+006:046 After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
+006:047 When evening had come, the boat was in the midst of the sea,
+        and he was alone on the land.
+006:048 Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary
+        to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them,
+        walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,
+006:049 but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it
+        was a ghost, and cried out;
+006:050 for they all saw him, and were troubled.  But he immediately
+        spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up!
+        It is I!{or, "I AM!"} Don't be afraid."
+006:051 He got into the boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they
+        were very amazed among themselves, and marveled;
+006:052 for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their
+        hearts were hardened.
+006:053 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret,
+        and moored to the shore.
+006:054 When they had come out of the boat, immediately the
+        people recognized him,
+006:055 and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those
+        who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.
+006:056 Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities,
+        or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces,
+        and begged him that they might touch just the fringe{or,
+        tassel} of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.
+007:001 Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together
+        to him, having come from Jerusalem.
+007:002 Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled,
+        that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
+007:003 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they
+        wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition
+        of the elders.
+007:004 They don't eat when they come from the marketplace,
+        unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things,
+        which they have received to hold to:  washings of cups,
+        pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
+007:005 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your
+        disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders,
+        but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
+007:006 He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites,
+        as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips,
+        but their heart is far from me.
+007:007 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines
+        the commandments of men.'{Isaiah 29:13}
+007:008 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly
+        to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups,
+        and you do many other such things."
+007:009 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God,
+        that you may keep your tradition.
+007:010 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;'{Exodus 20:12;
+        Deuteronomy 5:16} and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother,
+        let him be put to death.'{Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9}
+007:011 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother,
+        "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban{Corban
+        is a Hebrew word for an offering devoted to God.}, that is to say,
+        given to God;"'
+007:012 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father
+        or his mother,
+007:013 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you
+        have handed down.  You do many things like this."
+007:014 He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them,
+        "Hear me, all of you, and understand.
+007:015 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him
+        can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man
+        are those that defile the man.
+007:016 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
+007:017 When he had entered into a house away from the multitude,
+        his disciples asked him about the parable.
+007:018 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also?
+        Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside
+        can't defile him,
+007:019 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach,
+        then into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?"
+007:020 He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
+007:021 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts,
+        adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
+007:022 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye,
+        blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
+007:023 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
+007:024 From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre
+        and Sidon.  He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone
+        to know it, but he couldn't escape notice.
+007:025 For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit,
+        having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
+007:026 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race.
+        She begged him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.
+007:027 But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first,
+        for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread
+        and throw it to the dogs."
+007:028 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord.  Yet even the dogs under
+        the table eat the children's crumbs."
+007:029 He said to her, "For this saying, go your way.  The demon has
+        gone out of your daughter."
+007:030 She went away to her house, and found the child having been
+        laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.
+007:031 Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon,
+        and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the
+        region of Decapolis.
+007:032 They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment
+        in his speech.  They begged him to lay his hand on him.
+007:033 He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his
+        fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
+007:034 Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"
+        that is, "Be opened!"
+007:035 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his
+        tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.
+007:036 He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more
+        he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
+007:037 They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all
+        things well.  He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"
+008:001 In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they
+        had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself,
+        and said to them,
+008:002 "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed
+        with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
+008:003 If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint
+        on the way, for some of them have come a long way."
+008:004 His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy
+        these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
+008:005 He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"  They said, "Seven."
+008:006 He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground,
+        and he took the seven loaves.  Having given thanks,
+        he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve,
+        and they served the multitude.
+008:007 They had a few small fish.  Having blessed them, he said
+        to serve these also.
+008:008 They ate, and were filled.  They took up seven baskets of broken
+        pieces that were left over.
+008:009 Those who had eaten were about four thousand.
+        Then he sent them away.
+008:010 Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples,
+        and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
+008:011 The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from
+        him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
+008:012 He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this
+        generation{The word translated "generation" here (genea) could also
+        be translated "people," "race," or "family."} seek a sign?
+        Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given
+        to this generation."
+008:013 He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to
+        the other side.
+008:014 They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one
+        loaf in the boat with them.
+008:015 He charged them, saying, "Take heed:  beware of the yeast
+        of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
+008:016 They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we
+        have no bread."
+008:017 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that
+        it's because you have no bread?  Don't you perceive yet,
+        neither understand?  Is your heart still hardened?
+008:018 Having eyes, don't you see?  Having ears, don't you hear?
+        Don't you remember?
+008:019 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand,
+        how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"
+        They told him, "Twelve."
+008:020 "When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many
+        baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"
+        They told him, "Seven."
+008:021 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
+008:022 He came to Bethsaida.  They brought a blind man to him,
+        and begged him to touch him.
+008:023 He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him
+        out of the village.  When he had spit on his eyes, and laid
+        his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
+008:024 He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them
+        like trees walking."
+008:025 Then again he laid his hands on his eyes.  He looked intently,
+        and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.
+008:026 He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into
+        the village, nor tell anyone in the village."
+008:027 Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages
+        of Caesarea Philippi.  On the way he asked his disciples,
+        "Who do men say that I am?"
+008:028 They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others:
+        one of the prophets."
+008:029 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
+        Peter answered, "You are the Christ."
+008:030 He charged them that they should tell no one about him.
+008:031 He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things,
+        and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
+        and be killed, and after three days rise again.
+008:032 He spoke to them openly.  Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
+008:033 But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter,
+        and said, "Get behind me, Satan!  For you have in mind not
+        the things of God, but the things of men."
+008:034 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said
+        to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself,
+        and take up his cross, and follow me.
+008:035 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever
+        will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News
+        will save it.
+008:036 For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world,
+        and forfeit his life?
+008:037 For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
+008:038 For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this
+        adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will
+        be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father
+        with the holy angels."
+009:001 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some
+        standing here who will in no way taste death until they see
+        the Kingdom of God come with power."
+009:002 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John,
+        and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves,
+        and he was changed into another form in front of them.
+009:003 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow,
+        such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
+009:004 Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
+009:005 Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here.
+        Let's make three tents:  one for you, one for Moses,
+        and one for Elijah."
+009:006 For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
+009:007 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud,
+        "This is my beloved Son.  Listen to him."
+009:008 Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more,
+        except Jesus only.
+009:009 As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them
+        that they should tell no one what things they had seen,
+        until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
+009:010 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising
+        from the dead" meant.
+009:011 They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah
+        must come first?"
+009:012 He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things.
+        How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer
+        many things and be despised?
+009:013 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done
+        to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
+009:014 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them,
+        and scribes questioning them.
+009:015 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed,
+        and running to him greeted him.
+009:016 He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
+009:017 One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son,
+        who has a mute spirit;
+009:018 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams
+        at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away.
+        I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."
+009:019 He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long
+        shall I be with you?  How long shall I bear with you?
+        Bring him to me."
+009:020 They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit
+        convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming
+        at the mouth.
+009:021 He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come
+        to him?"  He said, "From childhood.
+009:022 Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water,
+        to destroy him.  But if you can do anything, have compassion
+        on us, and help us."
+009:023 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible
+        to him who believes."
+009:024 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe.
+        Help my unbelief!"
+009:025 When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked
+        the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit,
+        I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"
+009:026 Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him.
+        The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said,
+        "He is dead."
+009:027 But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
+009:028 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately,
+        "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
+009:029 He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing,
+        except by prayer and fasting."
+009:030 They went out from there, and passed through Galilee.
+        He didn't want anyone to know it.
+009:031 For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them,
+        "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men,
+        and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third
+        day he will rise again."
+009:032 But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid
+        to ask him.
+009:033 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them,
+        "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"
+009:034 But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another
+        on the way about who was the greatest.
+009:035 He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them,
+        "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all,
+        and servant of all."
+009:036 He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them.
+        Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
+009:037 "Whoever receives one such little child in my name,
+        receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me,
+        but him who sent me."
+009:038 John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow
+        us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him,
+        because he doesn't follow us."
+009:039 But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will
+        do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak
+        evil of me.
+009:040 For whoever is not against us is on our side.
+009:041 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name,
+        because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you,
+        he will in no way lose his reward.
+009:042 Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me
+        to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown
+        into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
+009:043 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.
+        It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than
+        having your two hands to go into Gehenna,{or, Hell} into
+        the unquenchable fire,
+009:044 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
+009:045 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off.
+        It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having
+        your two feet to be cast into Gehenna,{or, Hell} into the fire
+        that will never be quenched--
+009:046 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
+009:047 If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out.
+        It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God
+        with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into
+        the Gehenna{or, Hell} of fire,
+009:048 'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is
+        not quenched.'{Isaiah 66:24}
+009:049 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice
+        will be seasoned with salt.
+009:050 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness,
+        with what will you season it?  Have salt in yourselves,
+        and be at peace with one another."
+010:001 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and
+        beyond the Jordan.  Multitudes came together to him again.
+        As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
+010:002 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful
+        for a man to divorce his wife?"
+010:003 He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
+010:004 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written,
+        and to divorce her."
+010:005 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote
+        you this commandment.
+010:006 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male
+        and female.{Genesis 1:27}
+010:007 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother,
+        and will join to his wife,
+010:008 and the two will become one flesh,{Genesis 2:24} so that they
+        are no longer two, but one flesh.
+010:009 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
+010:010 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
+010:011 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another,
+        commits adultery against her.
+010:012 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another,
+        she commits adultery."
+010:013 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them,
+        but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
+010:014 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation,
+        and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me!
+        Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to
+        such as these.
+010:015 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom
+        of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
+010:016 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his
+        hands on them.
+010:017 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him,
+        and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may
+        inherit eternal life?"
+010:018 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good?  No one is good
+        except one--God.
+010:019 You know the commandments:  'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,'
+        'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,'
+        'Honor your father and mother.'"{Exodus 20:12-16;
+        Deuteronomy 5:16-20}
+010:020 He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things
+        from my youth."
+010:021 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing
+        you lack.  Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor,
+        and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me,
+        taking up the cross."
+010:022 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful,
+        for he was one who had great possessions.
+010:023 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it
+        is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
+010:024 The disciples were amazed at his words.  But Jesus answered again,
+        "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches
+        to enter into the Kingdom of God!
+010:025 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than
+        for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
+010:026 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who
+        can be saved?"
+010:027 Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible,
+        but not with God, for all things are possible with God."
+010:028 Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all,
+        and have followed you."
+010:029 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has
+        left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother,
+        or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake
+        of the Good News,
+010:030 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time,
+        houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land,
+        with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
+010:031 But many who are first will be last; and the last first."
+010:032 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going
+        in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed
+        were afraid.  He again took the twelve, and began to tell
+        them the things that were going to happen to him.
+010:033 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem.  The Son of Man
+        will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes.
+        They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him
+        to the Gentiles.
+010:034 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him.
+        On the third day he will rise again."
+010:035 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him,
+        saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
+010:036 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
+010:037 They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your
+        right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
+010:038 But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking.
+        Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized
+        with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
+010:039 They said to him, "We are able."  Jesus said to them,
+        "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall
+        be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
+010:040 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine
+        to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
+010:041 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards
+        James and John.
+010:042 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they
+        who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them,
+        and their great ones exercise authority over them.
+010:043 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become
+        great among you shall be your servant.
+010:044 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be
+        bondservant of all.
+010:045 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve,
+        and to give his life as a ransom for many."
+010:046 They came to Jericho.  As he went out from Jericho, with his
+        disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus,
+        a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
+010:047 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out,
+        and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"
+010:048 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out
+        much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"
+010:049 Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him."  They called
+        the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up!  Get up.
+        He is calling you!"
+010:050 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
+010:051 Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?"
+        The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni,{Rhabboni is a transliteration
+        of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."} that I may see again."
+010:052 Jesus said to him, "Go your way.  Your faith has made you well."
+        Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus
+        in the way.
+011:001 When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage{TR & NU
+        read "Bethphage" instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany,
+        at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
+011:002 and said to them, "Go your way into the village that
+        is opposite you.  Immediately as you enter into it,
+        you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat.
+        Untie him, and bring him.
+011:003 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord
+        needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."
+011:004 They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door
+        outside in the open street, and they untied him.
+011:005 Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing,
+        untying the young donkey?"
+011:006 They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
+011:007 They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments
+        on it, and Jesus sat on it.
+011:008 Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting
+        down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
+011:009 Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out,
+        "Hosanna{"Hosanna" means "save us" or "help us, we pray."}!
+        Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!{Psalm 118:25-26}
+011:010 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming
+        in the name of the Lord!  Hosanna in the highest!"
+011:011 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem.  When he had
+        looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went
+        out to Bethany with the twelve.
+011:012 The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.
+011:013 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see
+        if perhaps he might find anything on it.  When he came to it,
+        he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
+011:014 Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!"
+        and his disciples heard it.
+011:015 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple,
+        and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought
+        in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers,
+        and the seats of those who sold the doves.
+011:016 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.
+011:017 He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be
+        called a house of prayer for all the nations?'{Isaiah 56:7}
+        But you have made it a den of robbers!"{Jeremiah 7:11}
+011:018 The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how
+        they might destroy him.  For they feared him, because all
+        the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
+011:019 When evening came, he went out of the city.
+011:020 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered
+        away from the roots.
+011:021 Peter, remembering, said to him, "Rabbi, look!  The fig tree
+        which you cursed has withered away."
+011:022 Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God.
+011:023 For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain,
+        'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt
+        in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening;
+        he shall have whatever he says.
+011:024 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for,
+        believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
+011:025 Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything
+        against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven,
+        may also forgive you your transgressions.
+011:026 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven
+        forgive your transgressions."
+011:027 They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple,
+        the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,
+011:028 and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do
+        these things?  Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"
+011:029 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question.  Answer me,
+        and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
+011:030 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men?
+        Answer me."
+011:031 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say,
+        'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
+011:032 If we should say, 'From men'"--they feared the people,
+        for all held John to really be a prophet.
+011:033 They answered Jesus, "We don't know."  Jesus said to them,
+        "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."
+012:001 He began to speak to them in parables.  "A man planted a vineyard,
+        put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower,
+        rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
+012:002 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get
+        from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
+012:003 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
+012:004 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him,
+        wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
+012:005 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others,
+        beating some, and killing some.
+012:006 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him
+        last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
+012:007 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir.
+        Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
+012:008 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
+012:009 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do?  He will come
+        and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
+012:010 Haven't you even read this Scripture:  'The stone which the
+        builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
+012:011 This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes'?"{Psalm
+        118:22-23}
+012:012 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude;
+        for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them.
+        They left him, and went away.
+012:013 They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him,
+        that they might trap him with words.
+012:014 When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know
+        that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you
+        aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
+        Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
+012:015 Shall we give, or shall we not give?"  But he,
+        knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me?
+        Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
+012:016 They brought it.  He said to them, "Whose is this image
+        and inscription?"  They said to him, "Caesar's."
+012:017 Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that
+        are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
+        They marveled greatly at him.
+012:018 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection.
+        They asked him, saying,
+012:019 "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies,
+        and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children,
+        that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring
+        for his brother.'
+012:020 There were seven brothers.  The first took a wife, and dying
+        left no offspring.
+012:021 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him.
+        The third likewise;
+012:022 and the seven took her and left no children.  Last of all
+        the woman also died.
+012:023 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them?
+        For the seven had her as a wife."
+012:024 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken,
+        not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
+012:025 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry,
+        nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
+012:026 But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you
+        read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke
+        to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
+        and the God of Jacob'{Exodus 3:6}?
+012:027 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
+        You are therefore badly mistaken."
+012:028 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together.
+        Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him,
+        "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
+012:029 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God,
+        the Lord is one:
+012:030 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
+        and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your
+        strength.'{Deuteronomy 6:4-5} This is the first commandment.
+012:031 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor
+        as yourself.'{Leviticus 19:18} There is no other commandment
+        greater than these."
+012:032 The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well
+        that he is one, and there is none other but he,
+012:033 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,
+        with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love
+        his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole
+        burnt offerings and sacrifices."
+012:034 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him,
+        "You are not far from the Kingdom of God."  No one dared ask
+        him any question after that.
+012:035 Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it
+        that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
+012:036 For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said
+        to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies
+        the footstool of your feet."'{Psalm 110:1}
+012:037 Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?"
+        The common people heard him gladly.
+012:038 In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes,
+        who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings
+        in the marketplaces,
+012:039 and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:
+012:040 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make
+        long prayers.  These will receive greater condemnation."
+012:041 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude
+        cast money into the treasury.  Many who were rich cast in much.
+012:042 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins,{literally,
+        lepta (or widow's mites).  Lepta are very small brass coins worth
+        half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion.
+        Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily
+        wages.} which equal a quadrans coin.{A quadrans is a coin
+        worth about 1/64 of a denarius.  A denarius is about one day's
+        wages for an agricultural laborer.}
+012:043 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
+        "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than
+        all those who are giving into the treasury,
+012:044 for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of
+        her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."
+013:001 As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him,
+        "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
+013:002 Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings?
+        There will not be left here one stone on another, which will
+        not be thrown down."
+013:003 As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple,
+        Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,
+013:004 "Tell us, when will these things be?  What is the sign that
+        these things are all about to be fulfilled?"
+013:005 Jesus, answering, began to tell them, "Be careful that no one
+        leads you astray.
+013:006 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!{or, "I AM!"}'
+        and will lead many astray.
+013:007 "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled.
+        For those must happen, but the end is not yet.
+013:008 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
+        There will be earthquakes in various places.  There will
+        be famines and troubles.  These things are the beginning
+        of birth pains.
+013:009 But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils.
+        You will be beaten in synagogues.  You will stand before rulers
+        and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
+013:010 The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.
+013:011 When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be
+        anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say,
+        but say whatever will be given you in that hour.
+        For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
+013:012 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child.
+        Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be
+        put to death.
+013:013 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who
+        endures to the end, the same will be saved.
+013:014 But when you see the abomination of desolation,{Daniel 9:17;
+        11:31; 12:11} spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it
+        ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are
+        in Judea flee to the mountains,
+013:015 and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in,
+        to take anything out of his house.
+013:016 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
+013:017 But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse
+        babies in those days!
+013:018 Pray that your flight won't be in the winter.
+013:019 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has
+        not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God
+        created until now, and never will be.
+013:020 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would
+        have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones,
+        whom he picked out, he shortened the days.
+013:021 Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!'
+        or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.
+013:022 For there will arise false christs and false prophets,
+        and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray,
+        if possible, even the chosen ones.
+013:023 But you watch.  "Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.
+013:024 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened,
+        the moon will not give its light,
+013:025 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are
+        in the heavens will be shaken.{Isaiah 13:10; 34:4}
+013:026 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great
+        power and glory.
+013:027 Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his
+        chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth
+        to the ends of the sky.
+013:028 "Now from the fig tree, learn this parable.  When the branch
+        has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know
+        that the summer is near;
+013:029 even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass,
+        know that it is near, at the doors.
+013:030 Most certainly I say to you, this generation{The word
+        translated "generation" (genea) could also be translated "race,"
+        "family," or "people."} will not pass away until all
+        these things happen.
+013:031 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
+013:032 But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels
+        in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
+013:033 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.
+013:034 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left
+        his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each
+        one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
+013:035 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of
+        the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight,
+        or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
+013:036 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
+013:037 What I tell you, I tell all:  Watch."
+014:001 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and
+        the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes
+        sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
+014:002 For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be
+        a riot of the people."
+014:003 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
+        as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar
+        of ointment of pure nard--very costly.  She broke the jar,
+        and poured it over his head.
+014:004 But there were some who were indignant among themselves,
+        saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?
+014:005 For this might have been sold for more than three hundred
+        denarii,{300 denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural
+        laborer.} and given to the poor."  They grumbled against her.
+014:006 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone.  Why do you trouble her?
+        She has done a good work for me.
+014:007 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to,
+        you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
+014:008 She has done what she could.  She has anointed my body beforehand
+        for the burying.
+014:009 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be
+        preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman
+        has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."
+014:010 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to
+        the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
+014:011 They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money.
+        He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
+014:012 On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed
+        the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us
+        to go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?"
+014:013 He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city,
+        and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water.
+        Follow him,
+014:014 and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house,
+        'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat
+        the Passover with my disciples?"'
+014:015 He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready.
+        Make ready for us there."
+014:016 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things
+        as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
+014:017 When it was evening he came with the twelve.
+014:018 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I
+        tell you, one of you will betray me--he who eats with me."
+014:019 They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one,
+        "Surely not I?"  And another said, "Surely not I?"
+014:020 He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me
+        in the dish.
+014:021 For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him,
+        but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!
+        It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
+014:022 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed,
+        he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat.
+        This is my body."
+014:023 He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them.
+        They all drank of it.
+014:024 He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant,
+        which is poured out for many.
+014:025 Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit
+        of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the
+        Kingdom of God."
+014:026 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
+014:027 Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because
+        of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd,
+        and the sheep will be scattered.'{Zechariah 13:7}
+014:028 However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."
+014:029 But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended,
+        yet I will not."
+014:030 Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you, that you today,
+        even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny
+        me three times."
+014:031 But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will
+        not deny you."  They all said the same thing.
+014:032 They came to a place which was named Gethsemane.
+        He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray."
+014:033 He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly
+        troubled and distressed.
+014:034 He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.
+        Stay here, and watch."
+014:035 He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that,
+        if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
+014:036 He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you.
+        Please remove this cup from me.  However, not what I desire,
+        but what you desire."
+014:037 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon,
+        are you sleeping?  Couldn't you watch one hour?
+014:038 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation.
+        The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
+014:039 Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
+014:040 Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes
+        were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.
+014:041 He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now,
+        and take your rest.  It is enough.  The hour has come.
+        Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
+014:042 Arise, let us be going.  Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."
+014:043 Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of
+        the twelve, came--and with him a multitude with swords and clubs,
+        from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
+014:044 Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I
+        will kiss, that is he.  Seize him, and lead him away safely."
+014:045 When he had come, immediately he came to him,
+        and said, "Rabbi!  Rabbi!" and kissed him.
+014:046 They laid their hands on him, and seized him.
+014:047 But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword,
+        and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
+014:048 Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber,
+        with swords and clubs to seize me?
+014:049 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't
+        arrest me.  But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."
+014:050 They all left him, and fled.
+014:051 A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown
+        around himself, over his naked body.  The young men grabbed him,
+014:052 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
+014:053 They led Jesus away to the high priest.  All the chief priests,
+        the elders, and the scribes came together with him.
+014:054 Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into
+        the court of the high priest.  He was sitting with the officers,
+        and warming himself in the light of the fire.
+014:055 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses
+        against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
+014:056 For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony
+        didn't agree with each other.
+014:057 Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,
+014:058 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is
+        made with hands, and in three days I will build another
+        made without hands.'"
+014:059 Even so, their testimony did not agree.
+014:060 The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you
+        no answer?  What is it which these testify against you?"
+014:061 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing.  Again the high priest
+        asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
+014:062 Jesus said, "I am.  You will see the Son of Man sitting
+        at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds
+        of the sky."
+014:063 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need
+        have we of witnesses?
+014:064 You have heard the blasphemy!  What do you think?"
+        They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
+014:065 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat
+        him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!"  The officers
+        struck him with the palms of their hands.
+014:066 As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of
+        the high priest came,
+014:067 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said,
+        "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"
+014:068 But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you
+        are saying."  He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
+014:069 The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by,
+        "This is one of them."
+014:070 But he again denied it.  After a little while again those
+        who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them,
+        for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
+014:071 But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man
+        of whom you speak!"
+014:072 The rooster crowed the second time.  Peter remembered the word,
+        how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice,
+        you will deny me three times."  When he thought about that, he wept.
+015:001 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders
+        and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation,
+        and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him
+        up to Pilate.
+015:002 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"  He answered,
+        "So you say."
+015:003 The chief priests accused him of many things.
+015:004 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer?  See how many
+        things they testify against you!"
+015:005 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
+015:006 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner,
+        whom they asked of him.
+015:007 There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made
+        insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
+015:008 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always
+        did for them.
+015:009 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you
+        the King of the Jews?"
+015:010 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had
+        delivered him up.
+015:011 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should
+        release Barabbas to them instead.
+015:012 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom
+        you call the King of the Jews?"
+015:013 They cried out again, "Crucify him!"
+015:014 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?"
+        But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
+015:015 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas
+        to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him,
+        to be crucified.
+015:016 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium;
+        and they called together the whole cohort.
+015:017 They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns,
+        they put it on him.
+015:018 They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
+015:019 They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing
+        their knees, did homage to him.
+015:020 When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him,
+        and put his own garments on him.  They led him out to crucify him.
+015:021 They compelled one passing by, coming from the country,
+        Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go
+        with them, that he might bear his cross.
+015:022 They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is,
+        being interpreted, "The place of a skull."
+015:023 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he
+        didn't take it.
+015:024 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them,
+        casting lots on them, what each should take.
+015:025 It was the third hour,{9:00 A. M.} and they crucified him.
+015:026 The superscription of his accusation was written over him,
+        "THE KING OF THE JEWS."
+015:027 With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand,
+        and one on his left.
+015:028 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was
+        numbered with transgressors."
+015:029 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
+        and saying, "Ha!  You who destroy the temple, and build it
+        in three days,
+015:030 save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
+015:031 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with
+        the scribes said, "He saved others.  He can't save himself.
+015:032 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from
+        the cross, that we may see and believe him.{TR omits "him"}"
+        Those who were crucified with him insulted him.
+015:033 When the sixth hour{or, noon} had come, there was darkness
+        over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}
+015:034 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi,
+        lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God,
+        my God, why have you forsaken me?"{Psalm 22:1}
+015:035 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold,
+        he is calling Elijah."
+015:036 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on
+        a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be.
+        Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
+015:037 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
+015:038 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
+015:039 When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried
+        out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this
+        man was the Son of God!"
+015:040 There were also women watching from afar, among whom were
+        both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less
+        and of Joses, and Salome;
+015:041 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him;
+        and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
+015:042 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day,
+        that is, the day before the Sabbath,
+015:043 Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself
+        was looking for the Kingdom of God, came.  He boldly went
+        in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
+015:044 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning
+        the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
+015:045 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
+015:046 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen
+        cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock.
+        He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
+015:047 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where
+        he was laid.
+016:001 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother
+        of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come
+        and anoint him.
+016:002 Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb
+        when the sun had risen.
+016:003 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone
+        from the door of the tomb for us?"
+016:004 for it was very big.  Looking up, they saw that the stone
+        was rolled back.
+016:005 Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on
+        the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.
+016:006 He said to them, "Don't be amazed.  You seek Jesus,
+        the Nazarene, who has been crucified.  He has risen.
+        He is not here.  Behold, the place where they laid him!
+016:007 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you
+        into Galilee.  There you will see him, as he said to you.'"
+016:008 They went out,{TR adds "quickly"} and fled from the tomb,
+        for trembling and astonishment had come on them.
+        They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
+016:009 Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week,
+        he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast
+        out seven demons.
+016:010 She went and told those who had been with him, as they
+        mourned and wept.
+016:011 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen
+        by her, they disbelieved.
+016:012 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them,
+        as they walked, on their way into the country.
+016:013 They went away and told it to the rest.  They didn't
+        believe them, either.
+016:014 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat
+        at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness
+        of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him
+        after he had risen.
+016:015 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News
+        to the whole creation.
+016:016 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who
+        disbelieves will be condemned.
+016:017 These signs will accompany those who believe:  in my name they
+        will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
+016:018 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing,
+        it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick,
+        and they will recover."
+016:019 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received
+        up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
+016:020 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them,
+        and confirming the word by the signs that followed.  Amen.
+
+
+
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