27 Truly I tell you, some people who are standing here will not experience death until they see the kingdom of God."
28 Now about eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John, and James with him and went up on a mountain to pray.
29 While he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes turned dazzling white.
30 Suddenly, two men were talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah.
31 They appeared in glory and were discussing Jesus’ departure which he was about to bring to fulfillment in Jerusalem.
38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.
39 He entered the house and said to them,"Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead but is sleeping."
40 They laughed and laughed at him. But he forced all of them outside. Then he took the child's father and mother, along with the men who were with him, and went into the room where the child was.
41 He took her by the hand and said to her,"Talitha koum," which means,"Little girl, I tell you, get up!"
42 The little girl got up at once and started to walk, for she was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.
27 As Jesus was traveling on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!"
28 When he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him.Jesus asked them,"Do you believe I can do this?"They said to him, "Yes, Lord!"
29 Then he touched their eyes and said,"According to your faith, let it be done for you!"
30 And their eyes were opened.Then Jesus sternly told them,"See to it that nobody knows about this."
31 But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that land.
12 One day while Jesus was in one of the cities, a man covered with leprosy saw Jesus and fell on his face, begging him, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
13 So Jesus reached out his hand and touched him, saying,"I do want to. Be made clean!" Instantly the leprosy left him.
3 when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men.
4 Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the cot on which the paralyzed man was lying.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man,"Son, your sins are forgiven."
6 Now some scribes were sitting there, arguing among themselves,
7 "Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
8 At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. He said to them,"Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?
9 Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your cot, and walk’?
10 But I want you to knowthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins."Then he said to the paralyzed man,
11 "I say to you, get up, pick up your cot, and go home!"
12 So the man got up, immediately picked up his cot, and went out before all of them.As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
32 Then Jesus called his disciples and said,"I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without food, or they may faint on the road."
33 The disciples asked him, "Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?"
34 Jesus said to them,"How many loaves of bread do you have?"They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
35 Ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground,
36 he took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks. Then he broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
37 All of them ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up what was left of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.
38 Now those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.
11 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"’(that is, an offering to God)
12 you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
13 You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."
14 Then he called to the crowd again and said to them,"Listen to me, all of you, and understand!
15 Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It is what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.
30 Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever, so they promptly told Jesus about her.
31 He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.
2 Suddenly a leper came up to him, fell down before him, and said, "Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean."
3 So Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said,"I do want to. Be made clean!" And instantly his leprosy was made clean.
4 Then Jesus said to him,"See to it that you don't speak to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer the sacrifice that Moses commanded as proof to the authorities."
1 After Jesus had finished saying all these things in the hearing of the people, he went to Capernaum.
2 There a centurion's servant, whom he valued highly, was sick and about to die.
3 When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him to ask him to come and save his servant's life.
4 So they went to Jesus and begged him repeatedly, "He deserves to have this done for him,
5 because he loves our people and built our synagogue for us."
6 So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to tell Jesus, "Sir, stop troubling yourself. For I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.
7 That's why I didn't presume to come to you. But just say the word, and let my servant be healed.
8 For I, too, am a man under authority and have soldiers under me. I say to one ‘Go’ and he goes, to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my servant ‘Do this’ and he does it."
9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said,"I tell you, not even in Israel have I found this kind of faith!"
10 Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant in perfect health.
1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there,
2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, "They don't have any wine."
4 Jesus said to her,"How does that concern us, woman? My hour has not yet come."
5 His mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
6 Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
7 Jesus told the servants,"Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.
8 Then he said to them,"Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they took it.
9 When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom
10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"
11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
15 Now when evening came, the disciples went to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."
16 But Jesus said to them,"They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat."
17 They told him, "We don't have anything here except five loaves of bread and two fish."
18 He said,"Bring them here to me."
19 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
20 All of them ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up what was left of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.
21 Now those who had eaten were about 5,000 men, besides women and children.
24 When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John."What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
25 Really, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? See, those who wear fine clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.
26 Really, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!
27 Thisis the man about whom it is written,‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,who will prepare your way before you.’
28 I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he."
29 All the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, for they had been baptized with John's baptism.
30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God's plan for themselves by refusing to be baptized by him.
35 When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late.
36 Send the crowds away so that they can go to the neighboring farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat."
37 But he answered them,"You give them something to eat."They said to him, "Should we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"
38 He asked them,"How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and see."They found out and told him, "Five loaves and two fish."
39 Then he ordered them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.
40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.
41 Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
42 All of them ate and were filled.
43 Then the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of leftover bread and fish.
44 There were 5,000 men who had eaten the loaves.
21 Then Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 Suddenly a Canaanite woman from that territory came near and began to shout, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed!"
23 But he didn't answer her at all. Then his disciples came up and kept urging him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us."
24 But he replied,"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nationof Israel."
25 Then she came and fell down before him, saying, "Lord, help me!"
26 He replied,"It is not rightto take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."
27 She said, "Yes, Lord. But even the puppies eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ tables."
28 Then Jesus answered her,"O woman, your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you want." That very hour her daughter was healed.
1 Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.
2 Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathaniel from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two of his other disciples were together.
3 Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing."They told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.
4 Just as dawn was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore. The disciples didn't realize it was Jesus.
5 Jesus said to them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?"They answered him, "No."
6 He told them,"Throw the net on the right hand side of the boat, and you'll catchsome." So they threw it out and were unable to haul it in because it was so full of fish.
7 That disciple whom Jesus kept loving said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put back on his clothes, for he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.
8 But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish. They were only about a hundred yards away from the shore.
9 When they arrived at the shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish lying on it, and some bread.
10 Jesus told them,"Bring me some of the fish you've just caught."
11 So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish—153 of them. And although there were so many of them, the net was not torn.
31 Then Jesus left the territory of Tyre and passed through Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the territory of the Decapolis.
32 Some people brought him a deaf man who also had a speech impediment. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
33 Jesus took him away from the crowd to be alone with him. Putting his fingers into the man's ears, he touched his tongue with saliva.
34 Then he looked up to heaven, sighed, and said to him,"Ephphatha," that is,"Be opened!"
35 At once the man's ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to talk normally.
36 Jesus ordered the people not to tell anyone, but the more he kept ordering them, the more they kept spreading the news.
37 They were amazed beyond measure, saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"
6 Once, on another Sabbath, Jesus went into a synagogue and began teaching. A man whose right hand was paralyzed was there.
7 The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Jesus closely to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, in order to find a way of accusing him of doing something wrong.
8 But Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he said to the man with the paralyzed hand,"Get up, and stand in the middle of the synagogue." So he got up and stood there.
9 Then Jesus said to them,"I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?"
10 He looked around at all of them and then said to the man,"Hold out your hand." The man did so, and his hand was restored to health.
12 The next day, as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus became hungry.
13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves because it wasn't the season for figs.
14 So he said to it,"May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" Now his disciples were listening to this.
38 Suddenly a man in the crowd shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
39 Without warning a spirit takes control of him, and he suddenly screams, goes into convulsions, and foams at the mouth. The spirit mauls him and refuses to leave him.
40 I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."
41 Jesus answered,"You unbelieving and perverted generation! How much longer must I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!"
42 Even while the boy was coming, the demon knocked him to the ground and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.
43 So all the people continued to be amazed at the greatness of God. Indeed, everyone was astonished at all the things Jesus was doing. So he said to his disciples,
24 When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came up to Peter and said, "Your teacher pays the temple tax, doesn't he?"
25 He answered, "Yes."When Peter went home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying,"What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects,or from foreigners?"
26 When he said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him,"In that case, the subjectsare exempt.
27 However, so that we don't offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open itsmouth, and you will find a coin.Take it and give it to them for me and you."
31 "To what can I compare the people of this generation?
32 Theyare like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other,‘A wedding song we played for you,the dance you did but scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too,but then you did not mourn.’
33 For John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, yet you say, ‘He has a demon!’
34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
35 Absolved from every act of sin,is wisdom by her kith and kin."
36 Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So he went to the Pharisee's home and took his place at the table.
37 There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume
1 They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.
2 Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.
3 He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.
4 He had often been restrained with shackles and chains but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him.
5 Night and day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the mountainsides and kept cutting himself with stones.
6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell down in front of him,
7 screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I command you in the name of God not to torture me!"
8 For Jesus had been saying to him,"Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
9 Then Jesus asked him,"What's your name?"He said to him, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us."
10 He kept pleading with Jesus not to send them out of the territory.
11 Now a large herd of pigs was grazing on a hillside nearby.
12 So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"
13 So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down the cliff into the sea and drowned there.
14 Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.
40 Then a leper came to Jesus and began pleading with him. He fell on his knees and said to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."
41 Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and said to him,"I do want to. Be made clean!"
42 Instantly the leprosy left him, and he was clean.
1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, saying, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said,"This illness is not meant to end in death. It is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two days.
7 After this he said to the disciples,"Let's go back to Judea."
8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"
9 Jesus replied,"There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
11 These were the things he said. Then after this he told them,"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am leaving to wake him up."
12 So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."
13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.
14 Then Jesus told them plainly,"Lazarus has died.
6 Jesus said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for each of them to get a little."
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
9 "There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are they among so many people?"
10 Jesus said,"Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that place. So the men sat down, numbering about 5,000.
11 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were seated. He also distributed the fish, as much as they wanted.
12 When they were completely satisfied, he told his disciples,"Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is lost."
13 So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
19 They had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat. They became terrified.
20 But he said to them,"It is I. Stop being afraid!"
21 So they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.
1 One Sabbath, Jesus went to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal. The guests were watching Jesus closely.
2 A man whose body was swollen with fluid suddenly appeared in front of him.
3 So Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law,"Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"
4 But they kept silent. So he took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him away.
24 Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.
25 In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.
26 Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27 But he kept telling her,"First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."
28 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children's crumbs."
29 Then he said to her,"Because you have said this, go! The demon has left your daughter."
30 So she went home and found the child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.
22 One day Jesus and his disciples got into a boat. He said to them,"Let's cross to the other side of the lake." So they started out.
23 Now as they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. A violent storm swept over the lake, and they were taking on water and were in great danger.
24 So they went to him, woke him up, and said, "Master! Master! We're going to die!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. They stopped, and there was calm.
25 Then he asked the disciples,"Where is your faith?"Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, "Who is this man? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!"
27 When Jesus stepped out on the shore, a certain man from the city met him. This man was controlled by demons and had not worn clothes for a long time. He did not live in a house but in the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus, he screamed, fell down in front of him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want from me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"
29 For Jesus was in the process of ordering the unclean spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions the unclean spirit had seized the man, and though he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into deserted places.
30 Jesus asked him,"What's your name?"He answered, "Legion," because many demons had gone into him.
31 Then the demons began begging Jesus not to order them to go into the bottomless pit.
32 Now a large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into those pigs, and he let them do this.
33 Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and drowned.
34 Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and in the countryside.
35 So the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.
22 Then a synagogue leader named Jairus arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet
23 and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."
24 So Jesus went with him. A huge crowd kept following him and jostling him.
22 As they came to Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him.
23 Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. He spit into his eyes, placed his hands on him, and asked him,"Do you see anything?"
24 The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."
25 Then Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes again, and he saw clearly. His sight was restored, and he saw everything perfectly even from a distance.
26 Then Jesus sent him home, saying,"Don't go into the village or tell anyone in the village."
29 As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Jesus.
30 When two blind men who were sitting by the roadside heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"
31 The crowd sternly told them to be silent, but they shouted even louder, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"
32 Jesus stopped and called them, saying,"What do you want me to do for you?"
33 They told him, "Lord, let our eyes be opened!"
34 Then Jesus, deeply moved with compassion, touched their eyes and at once they could see again. So they followed him.
43 A woman was there who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years. Although she had spent all she had on doctors, no one could heal her.
44 She came up behind Jesus and touched the tassel of his garment, and her bleeding stopped at once.
45 Jesus asked,"Who touched me?"While everyone was denying it, Peter and those who were with him said, "Master, the crowds are surrounding you and pressing in on you."
46 Still Jesus said,"Somebody touched me, for I know that power has gone out of me."
47 When the woman saw that she couldn't hide, she came forward trembling. Bowing down in front of him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had touched Jesus and how she had been instantly healed.
48 He said to her,"Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace."
10 Suddenly a man with a paralyzed hand appeared. The people asked Jesus if it was lawful to heal on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.
11 But he said to them,"Is there a man among you who, if he had one sheep and it fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn't take hold of it and pull it out?
12 How much more is a human being worth than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."
13 Then he said to the man,"Hold out your hand." He held it out and it became normal, as healthy as the other.
23 Suddenly there was a man in their synagogue who had an unclean spirit. He screamed,
24 "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!"
25 But Jesus rebuked him, saying,"Be quiet, and come out of him!"
26 At this, the unclean spirit shook the man, cried out with a loud voice, and came out of him.
14 As they approached the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, knelt down in front of him,
15 and said, "Sir, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers terribly. Often he falls into fire and often into water.
16 I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn't heal him."
17 Jesus replied,"You unbelieving and perverted generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!"
18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed that very hour.
2 All at once some people brought him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man,"Be courageous, son! Your sins are forgiven."
3 Then some of the scribes said to themselves, "This fellow is blaspheming!"
4 But Jesus knew their thoughts and said,"Why do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts?
5 For which is easier: to say ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?
6 But I want you to knowthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins."Then he said to the paralyzed man,"Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"
7 So the man got up and went home.
20 While they were walking along early in the morning, they saw the fig tree dried up to its roots.
21 Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has dried up!"
22 Jesus said to them,"Have faith in God!
23 Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ if he doesn't doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
24 Thatis why I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have receivedit and it will be yours.
25 "Whenever you stand up to pray, forgive whatever you have against anyone, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins.
50 Then one of them struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.
51 But Jesus said,"No more of this!" So he touched his ear and healed him.
23 When Jesus came to the official's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,
24 he said,"Go away! The girl hasn't died but is sleeping." They laughed and laughed at him.
25 But when the crowd had been driven outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.
18 While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up, fell down before him, and said, "My daughter has just died. But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
19 So Jesus got up and followed him, along with his disciples.
46 Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus, his disciples, and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus) was sitting by the road.
47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
48 Many people sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
49 So Jesus stopped and said,"Call him!"So they called the blind man and told him, "Have courage! Get up. He's calling you."
50 He threw off his coat, jumped up, and went to Jesus.
51 Then Jesus asked him,"What do you want me to do for you?"The blind man said to him, "Rabbouni, I want to see again."
52 Jesus told him,"Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.
28 When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gerasenes, two demon-possessed men met him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could travel on that road.
29 Suddenly they screamed, "What do you want with us, Son of God? Did you come here to torture us before the proper time?"
30 Now a large herd of pigs was grazing some distance away from them.
31 So the demons began to plead with Jesus, saying, "If you drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."
32 He said to them,"Go," and they came out and went into the pigs. Suddenly, the whole herd rushed down the cliff into the sea and died in the water.
33 Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they came into the city and reported everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men.
34 Then the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.
48 He saw that they were straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea. He intended to go up right beside them,
49 but when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and began to scream.
50 All of them saw him and were terrified. Immediately he said to them,"Have courage! It is I. Stop being afraid!"
51 Then he got into the boat with them, and the wind stopped blowing. The disciples were utterly astounded,
14 Jesus was driving a demon out of a man who was unable to talk. When the demon had gone out, the man began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.
18 In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, he became hungry.
19 Seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it,"May fruit never come from you again!" And immediately the fig tree dried up.
20 When the disciples saw this, they were amazed and said, "How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?"
21 Jesus answered them,"Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen.
22 You will receive whatever you ask for in prayer, if you believe."
20 Just then a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel of his garment.
21 For she had been saying to herself, "If I just touch his robe, I will get well."
22 When Jesus turned and saw her, he said,"Be courageous, daughter! Your faith has made you well." And from that very hour the woman was well.
12 As the day was drawing to a close, the twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away to the neighboring villages and farms so they can rest and get some food, for we are here in a deserted place."
13 But he said to them,"You give them something to eat."They replied, "We have nothing more than five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all these people."
14 Now there were about 5,000 men. So he said to his disciples,"Have them sit down in groups of about fifty."
15 They did this and got all of them seated.
16 Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to the disciples to pass on to the crowd.
17 All of them ate and were filled. When they collected the leftover pieces, there were twelve baskets.
1 Later on, there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,
3 and under these a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, or paralyzed—waiting for the movement of the water.
4 For at certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water. And the one who stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
5 One particular man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him,"Do you want to get well?"
7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."
8 Jesus said to him,"Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"
9 The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.
38 Then Jesus got up to leave the synagogue and went into Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a high fever, so they asked Jesus about her.
39 He bent over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began serving them.
22 Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to talk was brought to him. Jesus healed him so that the man could speak and see.
1 Jesus went into the synagogue again, and a man with a paralyzed hand was there.
2 The people watched Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.
3 He said to the man with the paralyzed hand,"Come forward."
4 Then he asked them,"Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill it?" But they were silent.
5 Jesus looked around at them with anger, for he was deeply hurt because of their hardness of heart. Then he said to the man,"Hold out your hand." The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health.
37 A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.
38 But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"
39 Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,"Hush! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.
40 He said to them,"Why are you such cowards? Don't you have any faith yet?"
41 They were overcome with fear and kept saying to one another, "Who is this man? Even the wind and the sea obey him!"
5 When Jesus returned to Capernaum, a centurion came up to him and begged him repeatedly,
6 "Sir, my servant is lying at home paralyzed and in terrible pain."
7 Jesus said to him,"I will come and heal him."
8 The centurion replied, "Sir, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
9 For I, too, am a man under authority and have soldiers under me. I say to one ‘Go’ and he goes, to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my servant ‘Do this’ and he does it."
10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those who were following him,"Truly I tell you, not evenin Israel have I found this kind of faith!
11 I tell you, many will come from east and west and will feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the citizensof that kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion,"Go. It will be done for you just as you have believed." And his servant was healed that very hour.
35 As Jesus was approaching Jericho, there was a blind man sitting by the road begging.
36 When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.
37 They told him that Jesus from Nazareth was coming by.
38 Then he shouted, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
39 The people at the front of the crowd sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
40 Then Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him,
41 "What do you want me to do for you?"He said, "Lord, I want to see again!"
42 Jesus told him,"Receive your sight! Your faith has made you well."
43 Immediately the man could see again and began to follow Jesus, glorifying God. All the people saw this and gave praise to God.
32 As they were going out, a man who couldn't talk because he was demon-possessed was brought to him.
33 As soon as the demon had been driven out, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"
17 A man in the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that won't let him talk.
18 Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn't have the power."
19 Jesus said to them,"You unbelieving generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"
20 So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. He fell on the ground and kept rolling around and foaming at the mouth.
21 Then Jesus asked his father,"How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.
22 The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!"
23 Jesus said to him,"‘If you are able?’ Everything is possible for the person who believes!"
24 With tears flowing, the child's father at once cried out, "I do believe! Help my unbelief!"
25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it,"You spirit that won't let him talk or hear—I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"
26 The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.
27 But Jesus took his hand and helped him up, and he stood up.
11 One day, Jesus was traveling along the border between Samaria and Galilee on the way to Jerusalem.
12 As he was going into a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance
13 and shouted, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"
14 When he saw them, he told them,"Go and show yourselves to the priests." While they were going, they were made clean.
15 But one of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back and praised God with a loud voice.
16 He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. Now the man was a Samaritan.
17 Jesus asked,"Ten men were made clean, weren't they? Where are the other nine?
18 Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"
19 Then he told the man,"Get up, and go home! Your faith has made you well."
41 Just then a synagogue leader by the name of Jairus arrived. He fell at Jesus’ feet and kept begging him to come to his home,
42 because his only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. While Jesus was on his way, the crowds continued to press in on him.
1 One day as the crowd was pressing in on him to listen to God's word, Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
2 He saw two boats lying on the shore, but the fishermen had stepped out of them and were washing their nets.
3 So Jesus got into one of the boats (the one that belonged to Simon) and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat.
4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,"Push out into deep water, and lower your nets for a catch."
5 Simon answered, "Master, we have worked hard all night and caught nothing. But if you say so, I'll lower the nets."
6 After the men had done this, they caught so many fish that the nets began to tear.
7 So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats until the boats began to sink.
8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus’ knees and said, "Leave me, Lord! I am a sinful man!"
9 For Simon and all the people who were with him were amazed at the number of fish they had caught,
10 and so were James and John, Zebedee's sons and Simon's partners.Then Jesus said to Simon,"Stop being afraid. From now on you will be catching people."
11 So when they brought the boats to shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.
23 When Jesus got into the boat, his disciples went with him.
24 Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat began to be swamped by the waves. Yet Jesus kept sleeping.
25 They went to him and woke him up, saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to die!"
26 He said to them,"Why are you afraid, you who have little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
27 The men were amazed and said, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!"
32 Now Peter and the men with him had been overcome by sleep. When they woke up, they saw Jesus’ glory and the two men standing with him.
33 Just as Moses and Elijah were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Peter didn't know what he was saying.)
11 A woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years. She was hunched over and completely unable to stand up straight.
12 When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,"Woman, you are free from your illness."
13 Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.
1 In those days, when a large crowd again had gathered with nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples and said to them,
2 "I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat.
3 If I send them away to their homes hungry, they will faint on the road. Some of them have come a long distance."
4 His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"
5 He asked them,"How many loaves of bread do you have?"They said, "Seven."
6 So he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and gave thanks. He broke them in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to distribute. So they served them to the crowd.
7 They also had a few small fish. He blessed them and said that the fish should also be distributed.
8 The people ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full.
9 Now about 4,000 men were there. Then he sent them on their way.
25 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years.
26 Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all but rather grew worse.
27 Since she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe.
28 For she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get well."
29 Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.
22 One day Jesus and his disciples got into a boat. He said to them,"Let's cross to the other side of the lake." So they started out.
23 Now as they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. A violent storm swept over the lake, and they were taking on water and were in great danger.
24 So they went to him, woke him up, and said, "Master! Master! We're going to die!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. They stopped, and there was calm.
25 Then he asked the disciples,"Where is your faith?"Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, "Who is this man? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!"
26 They landed in the region of the Gerasenes, which is just across the lake from Galilee.
18 Some men were bringing a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to take him into the house and place him in front of Jesus.
19 When they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on his stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the room, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said,"Mister,your sins are forgiven."
21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to argue among themselves, saying, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
22 Because Jesus knew that they were arguing, he said to them,"Why are you arguing about this among yourselves?
23 Whichis easier: to say ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say ‘Get up and walk’?
24 ButI want you to knowthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins."Then he said to the paralyzed man,"I say to you: Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"
25 So the man immediately stood up in front of them and picked up what he had been lying on. Then he went home, praising God.
49 While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Stop bothering the teacher anymore."
50 But when Jesus heard this, he told the synagogue leader,"Stop being afraid! Just believe, and she will get well."
51 When he arrived at the house, he allowed no one to go in with him except Peter, John, James, and the child's father and mother.
52 Now everyone was crying and wailing for her. But Jesus said,"Stop crying! She's not dead but is sleeping."
53 They laughed and laughed at him, because they knew she was dead.
54 But he took her hand and called out,"Child, get up!"
55 So her spirit returned, and she got up at once. Then he directed that she be given something to eat.
56 Her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.
25 Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea.
46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.
47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.
48 Jesus told him,"Unless you peoplesee signs and wonders, you will never believe."
49 The official said to him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies."
50 Jesus said to him,"Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started on his way.
51 While he was on his way down, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.
52 So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon."
53 Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him,"Your son will live." And he himself believed, along with his whole family.
54 Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
1 As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"
3 Jesus answered,"Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so thatthe works of God might be revealed in him.
4 Imust work the works of the one who sent mewhile it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes
7 and told him,"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off and washed and came back seeing.