12 It happened that, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man present full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, "Sir, if you will, you can cleanse me."
13 Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said, "I will it; be cleansed." Immediately the leprosy left him.
27 As Jesus was going along from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, "Have pity on us, Son of David."
28 After he had entered the house, these blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" They said, "Yes, Sir."
29 Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith be it to you."
30 And their eyes were opened. Jesus sternly commanded them, "Be sure and let no one know of this."
31 But they went out and spread his fame through all that country.
30 The mother-in-law of Simon was lying sick with fever. Immediately they told him about her.
31 He came to her, and took her by the hand and lifted her up. The fever left her and she waited on them.
32 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for the crowd, for they have now been with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away fasting; they might faint on the road."
33 The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this uninhabited place to feed such a crowd?"
34 Jesus said, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fishes."
35 Then he told the crowd to recline on the ground,
36 and he took the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks and broke them and gave to his disciples, and the disciples distributed to the crowd.
37 All ate and were satisfied, and they picked up seven baskets full of fragments that were left over.
38 There were four thousand men that ate, besides women and children.
1 ON the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.
3 When the wine ran short, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."
4 Jesus said to her, "What have you to do with my work, woman? My hour has not yet come."
5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."
6 There were standing there six stone water jars in accordance with the Jewish custom of purification, holding about twenty or thirty gallons apiece.
7 Jesus said to them, "Fill the jars with water." They filled them to the brim.
8 Then he said to them, "Dip out now and carry it to the Master of the feast." They carried it,
9 and when the Master of the feast tasted the water that had become wine, not knowing where it came from \'97 though the servants who had dipped out the water knew \'97 he called to the bridegroom
10 and said to him, "Every man sets on first the fine wine, and when they have drunk freely he sets on the poorer. You have kept the fine wine till now."
11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana in Galilee and displayed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
38 When they approached the Director's house, they saw a noisy crowd weeping loudly and wailing.
39 He entered and said, "Why are you making so much noise and weeping so? The child is not dead, but is sleeping."
40 But they laughed at him. Then he put them all out and took the child's father and mother and his own companions and went in where the child was.
41 Taking hold of the child's hand he said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, rise up."
42 Immediately the little girl rose up and walked around. She was twelve years old. They were utterly amazed.
2 And a leper came up and bowed before him, and said, "Sir, if you have the will, you have power to make me clean."
3 Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him and said, "I have the will, be cleansed." Instantly his leprosy was cleansed away.
4 Jesus said to him, "Be sure and do not say a word to any one, but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift which Moses prescribed as evidence for them."
27 I tell you truly there are some of those standing here who will not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God."
28 About eight days after this conversation, Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up the mountain to pray.
29 While he was praying, the appearance of his face changed and his clothing became radiant white.
30 Suddenly two men were talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,
31 who appeared in glory and spoke of his passing which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
1 WHEN he had finished all his discourses in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum.
2 The servant of a certain Centurion was sick and about to die. He was highly valued by his master,
3 who hearing about Jesus sent to him some elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.
4 When they came to Jesus they begged him earnestly, saying, "He deserves to have this done,
5 for he loves our nation and he built us our synagogue."
6 Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the Centurion sent friends to say to him, "Do not trouble yourself, Sir, for I am not fit to have you come under my roof.
7 On that account I did not think myself worthy to come to you. But say the word and have my servant cured.
8 For I am a man \'97 under authority \'97 with soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to that one, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."
9 When Jesus heard this, he wondered, and, turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, in Israel I have not found such faith."
10 Those who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
11 But you say, 'If a man says to his father or his mother, Whatever benefit you enjoy from me is now Korban, that is, a gift to God,' \'97
12 you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother,
13 thus nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and many similar things you do."
14 Then, calling the crowd to him again, he said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.
15 There is nothing from outside a man that can go into him and defile him, but the things that come out of the man are the things that defile the man."
3 Then some people came bringing to him a paralytic, borne by four.
4 Not being able to bring him near, owing to the crowd, they opened the roof where he was, and when they had broken through it, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
6 There were some of the scribes sitting there and debating in their minds,
7 "Why does this man talk so? He speaks profane words. Who except God can forgive sins?"
8 Immediately Jesus, perceiving that they were inwardly reasoning in this way, said to them, "Why do you reason so in your minds?
9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your pallet and walk'?
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins," turning to the paralytic he said,
11 "I tell you, Rise, take up your pallet and go to your house."
12 Immediately the man rose and took up his pallet and went out before all, so that they were astounded and gave praise to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
24 After John's messengers had left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wild country to look at? A reed shaken by the wind?
25 But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothes? Indeed, the people in splendid clothing and living in luxury are in kings' palaces.
26 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
27 For this is he about whom it was written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will make ready your way before you.'
28 I tell you there is not among those born of women a greater than John. But an inferior in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
29 (All the people, even the tax collectors when they heard him, had confessed that God was right by being baptized with the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers had thwarted the purpose of God in reference to themselves by not being baptized by him.)
15 When evening had come on, his disciples came to him and said, "This is an uninhabited place and the time is already late; send away the crowd so that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food."
16 But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away. Give them food yourselves."
17 They said to him, "We have here nothing but five loaves and two fishes."
18 He said, "Bring them to me."
19 Then he commanded the crowd to recline on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fishes and looked up to heaven and asked a blessing. Then he broke up the loaves and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples distributed to the crowd.
20 All ate and had abundance, and they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces that remained over.
21 Those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
35 By this time it was late in the day, and his disciples came to him and said, "This is an uninhabited place and the hour is already late.
36 Send them away so that they can go to the farms and villages around and buy themselves something to eat."
37 But Jesus answered, "Give them something to eat yourselves." They said, "Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings worth of bread and feed them?"
38 He asked, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." When they had ascertained they said, "Five, and there are two fishes."
39 Then he told them to have all the people recline in groups on the green grass.
40 They lay down in rows by hundreds and by fifties.
41 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and broke them and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. The two fishes he also divided among all.
42 All ate and had abundance,
43 and they picked up twelve basketfuls of the broken pieces of the bread, besides portions of the fishes.
44 There were five thousand men who ate of the loaves.
19 When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the lake and getting near the boat, and they were frightened.
20 But he said to them, "It is I; never fear."
21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and at once the boat came to the land they were making for.
1 ONCE, when he went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him closely.
2 And there before him was a man who had dropsy.
3 Jesus said to the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it allowable to heal on the Sabbath or is it not?"
4 They kept quiet. Then taking hold of him he cured him and dismissed him.
24 Leaving that place, Jesus went into the borders of Tyre. He entered a house and did not wish any one to know it, but he could not escape notice.
25 At once a woman whose daughter was afflicted by an impure spirit heard about him, and she came and fell at his feet.
26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
27 But he said, "Let the children be well fed first. For it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
28 She answered, "Yes, Sir, even the dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs."
29 Then he said to her, "For this answer, go. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
30 She returned to her house and found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone.
22 It happened one day that he got into a boat, and his disciples went with him. He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." They put out.
23 While they were sailing he fell asleep. A gale of wind came down on the lake and the boat was filling and in peril.
24 Coming to him, they awoke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are going down!" He awoke and rebuked the wind and the waves. They grew quiet and there was a calm.
25 He said to the disciples, "Where is your faith?" They were awed and amazed, and said to one another, "Who then is this man who commands the winds and the water and they obey him?"
27 When he got out on to the land, there met him a certain man from that city who had demons. For a long time he had not worn clothes and had not lived in a house, but in the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus, he screamed and fell down before him, and in a loud voice said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I pray you, do not torment me."
29 For he had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and, though he was bound with chains and fetters and kept under guard, yet bursting his chains he would be driven by the demon off into the wilds.
30 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him.
31 They begged him not to bid them go away into the abyss.
32 There was near by a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain. The demons begged him to permit them to go into the swine. He gave them leave.
33 The demons left the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
34 The herdsmen, seeing what had happened, fled and told it in the city and on the farms.
35 The people came out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were struck with awe.
22 Then came one of the directors of the synagogue, by the name of Jairus, and as soon as he saw Jesus he fell at his feet
23 and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is near to death. I beg you to come and lay your hands on her so that she may be saved and live."
24 Jesus went away with him and a great crowd followed and pressed upon him.
22 They came to Bethsaida. There some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.
23 Taking hold of the blind man's hand, he led him out of the village. Then, after spitting in his eyes and laying his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?"
24 He looked up and said, "I see the people; I see them like trees, walking around."
25 Again Jesus put his hand on his eyes, and he looked and was restored and saw everything clearly.
26 Then Jesus sent him away home, saying, "Do not go into the village."
29 As they were leaving Jericho, a great crowd followed him.
30 Two blind men were sitting at the side of the road, and when they heard that Jesus was passing, they cried out, "Sir, have pity on us, Son of David!"
31 The crowd rebuked them and told them to be silent. But all the more they cried, "Sir, have pity on us, Son of David!"
32 Jesus stopped and called them and said, "What do you want me to do for you?"
33 They said, "We want our eyes opened."
34 Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and at once they regained sight and followed him.
43 A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be cured by any one,
44 came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak. At once her hemorrhage ceased.
45 Jesus said, "Who is it that touched me?" All denied, and Peter said, "Master, the crowd is pressing upon you on every side."
46 Jesus said, "Some one touched me, for I know that power has gone forth from me."
47 The woman, seeing that she had not escaped notice, came trembling and fell before him, and told before all the people why she had touched him and how she was instantly cured.
48 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace."
10 A man was there with a withered hand. They asked Jesus, "Is it allowable to heal on the Sabbath?" \'97 so that they might have something to accuse him of.
11 He said to them, "What man is there of you who, if he has one sheep, and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold on it and lift it out?
12 But how much more is a man worth than a sheep! So it is allowable to do good on the Sabbath."
13 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and it was restored as sound as the other.
23 There was in their synagogue a man wider the power of an impure spirit, and he immediately cried out,
24 "What have you to do with us, Nazarene Jesus? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are \'97 the Holy one of God."
25 But Jesus reproved him and said, "Be still, and come out of him."
26 Then the impure spirit convulsed him, and screamed loudly and came out.
14 When they reached the crowd, a man came to Jesus and knelt to him and said,
15 "Sir, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic and is in a very bad way. For often he falls into the fire and often into the water.
16 I brought him to your disciples and they could not cure him."
17 Jesus answered, "O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long must I be with you? How long must I bear you? Bring him here."
18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and he came out of him and the boy was well from that hour.
38 and suddenly a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I pray you look at my son, for he is my only one,
39 and see, a spirit seizes him and all at once he shrieks. It convulses him till he foams and it hardly leaves off tormenting him.
40 I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."
41 Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverted generation, how long must I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."
42 Even while he was coming, the demon dashed him down and convulsed him. Jesus rebuked the impure spirit and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.
43 They were amazed at the greatness of God. While they were all wondering at all the things that he did, he said to his disciples,
2 They brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, "Have courage, boy, your sins are forgiven."
3 At once some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is speaking profane words."
4 Jesus knew their thoughts and said, "Why are you thinking evil thoughts in your hearts?
5 For which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?
6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" \'97 then he said to the paralytic, "Rise, take up your bed and go to your house."
7 Thereupon he rose and went away to his house.
20 As they were passing by early in the morning they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
21 Peter, calling to mind, said to him, "Rabbi, see, the fig tree that you cursed has withered up."
22 Jesus answered, "Have faith in God.
23 I tell you truly whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his mind, but believes that what he says will be, will have it.
24 For this reason I say to you, all things whatever that you pray and ask for, believe that you have obtained them and you will have them.
25 And when you stand praying, forgive if you have anything against any one, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your failings."
22 Then there was brought to Jesus a demoniac, blind and dumb. He healed him so that he spoke and saw.
50 One of them did strike the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear.
51 But Jesus said, "Let me at least do this," and he touched his ear and healed it.
5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum there came to him a Centurion who implored his help.
6 "Sir," he said, "my servant lies in my house a paralytic, in great distress."
7 Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."
8 The Centurion answered, "Sir, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but just speak the word and my servant will be cured.
9 For I am a man, \'97 under authority, \'97 with soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."
10 When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said, "Truly I tell you, I have not found so great faith on the part of any one in Israel.
11 I tell you many will come from the east and from the west and will recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the darkness outside. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
13 Then Jesus said to the Centurion, "Go. As you have believed, so be it to you." His servant was healed that very hour.
23 Jesus entered the house of the Director and saw the flute-players and the crowd that was noisily lamenting, and he said,
24 "Leave the room, for the girl is not dead; she is sleeping." They laughed at him.
25 But after the crowd had been turned out, he went in and took hold of her hand and the girl rose up.
35 As he approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.
36 Hearing a crowd passing, he inquired what this was.
37 They told him, "Jesus, the Nazarene, is passing by."
38 Then he shouted, "Jesus, son of David, have pity on me!"
39 Those who were in front rebuked him and told him to be still. But he kept crying out much louder, "Son of David, have pity on me!"
40 Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be led to him. When he had come up, Jesus asked him,
41 "What do you want me to do for you?" He said, "Sir, I want my sight."
42 Jesus said to him, "See. Your faith has healed you."
43 Immediately he received sight and followed him, giving glory to God. All the people upon seeing this gave praise to God.
37 Then a heavy squall of wind came up and the waves beat into the boat so that it was filling.
38 But he was in the stern asleep on the cushion. They aroused him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are sinking?"
39 When he awoke, he rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." The wind ceased and there was a great calm.
40 Then he asked them, "Why are you so timid? How is it you have no faith?"
41 But they were intensely awestruck and said to one another, "Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the lake obey him?"
18 Then came some men bearing on a bed a man who was paralytic, and they tried to bring him in and lay him before Jesus.
19 When they could not contrive to bring him in on account of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his pallet into the midst in front of Jesus.
20 He saw their faith and said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."
21 The scribes and Pharisees began to argue, saying, "Who is this man who speaks profane words? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
22 But Jesus perceived their arguing and asked them, "What are you arguing in your hearts?
23 Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?
24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on the earth to forgive sins" \'97 he said to the paralytic \'97 "I tell you, Rise and take up your pallet and go to your house."
25 Immediately he stood up before them and took up what he had been lying on and went away to his house, glorifying God.
1 HE went another time into the synagogue and there was present a man with a withered hand.
2 They watched him to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might have something to say against him.
3 He said to the man with the withered hand, "Stand up in the center."
4 Then he said to them, "Is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?" But they kept silent.
5 He looked round on them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched the hand out and it was completely restored.
28 When he arrived at the other side, the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two demoniacs coming out of the tombs. They were very fierce, so that no one was able to pass along that road.
29 Suddenly they shouted, "Son of God, what have you to do with us? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
30 There was far off from them a herd of many swine feeding.
31 The demons begged him, "If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine."
32 He said to them, "Go." So they went out and entered into the swine. Then suddenly the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the waves.
33 The herdsmen fled and went away to the town and told everything, including what had happened to the demoniacs.
34 Then at once all the town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to depart from their neighborhood.
11 And a woman was there who had had a spirit of weakness eighteen years, and was bent together and could not stand up straight.
12 When Jesus saw her he called to her and said, "Woman, you have been freed from your weakness,"
13 and he laid his hands on her. Immediately she was straightened and gave glory to God.
6 It happened on another Sabbath that he went into the synagogue and was teaching. There was a man there whose right hand was withered.
7 The scribes and Pharisees watched to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, wishing to find something to accuse him of.
8 But he knew their thoughts and said to the man with the withered hand, "Rise, and stand in the center." He rose and stood.
9 Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"
10 He looked around at all of them, then said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did so and his hand was restored.
25 There was a woman who had for twelve years had a hemorrhage
26 and had suffered much under the treatment of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, though without becoming better, but rather worse;
27 this woman had heard about Jesus, and she came in the crowd behind him and touched his cloak,
28 for she said, "If I can touch even his clothes, I shall be healed."
29 Immediately the hemorrhage ceased and she knew in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
1 IT happened that, as the crowd was pressing upon him and listening to the word of God, he was standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret,
2 and he saw two boats by the shore. The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing their nets.
3 He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push off a little from the land. Then, sitting down, he taught the people from the boat.
4 When he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Push out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch."
5 Simon answered, "Master, we have worked all night and caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets."
6 When they had done this, they enclosed a great mass of fishes and their nets began to break.
7 They beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and take hold with them. They came, and both the boats were filled so that they began to sink.
8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down on his knees before Jesus and said, "Leave my boat and me, Sir, for I am a sinful man."
9 For amazement seized him and all those who were with him at the catch of fishes they had taken.
10 It was just the same with James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. But Jesus said to Simon, "Never fear; from now on you will be catching men."
11 Then they brought their boats to land and left all and followed him.
41 There came a man by the name of Jairus \'97 he was a synagogue director. Falling at the feet of Jesus, he begged him to come to his house
42 because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going the crowds pressed around him.
11 It happened that on his journey toward Jerusalem he was going through Samaria and Galilee.
12 As he was approaching a certain village, ten leprous men met him. They stood at a distance,
13 and, raising their voices, called, "Jesus, Master, have compassion on us."
14 When Jesus saw them, he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." While they were going, they became clean.
15 One of them, seeing that he had been cured, turned back with a loud shout giving glory to God,
16 and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus, thanking him. He was a Samaritan.
17 Jesus said, "Were not ten cleansed? But the nine \'97 where are they?
18 Was there none found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?"
19 He said to him, "Rise and go. Your faith has healed you."
1 IN those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called together his disciples and said to them,
2 "I have compassion on the crowd because they have already spent three days with me and they have nothing to eat.
3 If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way. Some of them are from a long way off."
4 His disciples answered, "Where will any one be able to get bread to supply these people here in the uninhabited country?"
5 He asked them, "How many loaves have you?" They said, "Seven."
6 He told the people to recline on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and, after giving thanks, broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed to the people.
7 They had also a few small fishes. These he blessed and told the disciples to distribute them.
8 All ate and were satisfied, and they picked up of the fragments that were left over seven basketfuls.
9 There were about four thousand men. Then he dismissed them.
12 When the day began to decline, the twelve came and said to him, "Dismiss the crowd, so that they may go to the villages and farms around and put up for the night and find food, for here we are in the wild lands."
13 He said to them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." They replied, "We have not more than five loaves and two fishes. We cannot go and buy food for all this crowd, can we?"
14 There were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Have them recline in rows of fifty."
15 They did so, and made all recline.
16 Taking the five loaves and the fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed them and broke them and gave to the disciples to distribute to the crowd.
17 They all ate and had abundance, and what was left over was picked up \'97 twelve baskets of fragments.
12 On the next morning, after they had left Bethany, he was hungry,
13 and seeing a fig tree at a distance in full leaf he went to it on the chance of finding something on it. But when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14 Then he said to it, "Nevermore may any one eat fruit from you!" And his disciples heard him.
20 Suddenly a woman who had been suffering for twelve years from hemorrhage came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak.
21 For she said to herself, "If I touch only his cloak, I shall be healed."
22 But Jesus turned and, seeing her, said, "Courage, daughter, your faith has healed you." The woman was cured from that hour.
22 It happened one day that he got into a boat, and his disciples went with him. He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." They put out.
23 While they were sailing he fell asleep. A gale of wind came down on the lake and the boat was filling and in peril.
24 Coming to him, they awoke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are going down!" He awoke and rebuked the wind and the waves. They grew quiet and there was a calm.
25 He said to the disciples, "Where is your faith?" They were awed and amazed, and said to one another, "Who then is this man who commands the winds and the water and they obey him?"
26 They sailed to the land of the Gerasenes, which is across from Galilee.
49 While he was still speaking some one came from the Director's house, saying, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher any longer."
50 Jesus heard it and said to him, "Never fear. Only believe and she will be saved."
51 When he came to the house, he did not permit any one to enter with him except Peter and John and James and the father of the child and her mother.
52 All were weeping and wailing for her. He said, "Do not weep. She is not dead, but asleep."
53 They laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.
54 But he took hold of her hand and said to her, "Little girl, rise up."
55 Her spirit returned and at once she stood up. He told them to give her something to eat.
56 Her parents were amazed, but he told them not to tell any one of what had happened.
24 After they came to Capernaum, the men who were collecting the Temple tax came to Peter and said, "Does not your teacher pay the Temple tax?"
25 He said, "Yes." But when he went into the house Jesus spoke first to him and said, "How do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect taxes or tribute, from their own sons or from those who are not?"
26 Upon his saying, "From those who are not," Jesus said to him, "So then the sons are free.
27 But in order that we may not mislead them, go to the lake and throw in a hook and take the first fish that comes up. When you open his mouth you will find a coin. Take that and give it to them for me and yourself.
32 As they were going out, a dumb man who was also a demoniac was brought to him.
33 After the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. The crowd wondered and said, "Never was anything like this seen in Israel."
32 Peter and his companions had been weighed down with sleep, but becoming fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who were standing with him.
33 As they were departing from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is fine for us to be here. Let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah," not knowing what he was saying.
25 In the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking on the water.
46 He came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. A certain royal officer was there whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47 This man heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, and he came to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death,
48 Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe."
49 The officer said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
50 Jesus said to him, "Go. Your son is living." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and went.
51 Even while he was going down, his servants met him with the word that his son was living.
52 He inquired of them the hour when he was better. They said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."
53 So the father knew that it was at that hour at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son is living," and he believed, himself and his whole household.
54 This is the second time that Jesus did a sign just after coming from Judaea to Galilee.
31 "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
32 They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, 'We played the flute for you but you did not dance. We mourned but you did not wail!'
33 For John the Baptist has come, not eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'See there a man who is a glutton and wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
35 Yet Wisdom is shown to be in the right by all her children."
36 One of the Pharisees kept asking him to dine with him. Entering the house of this Pharisee, he reclined at the table.
37 Now there was a certain woman in the city, a sinner, and when she learned that he was at table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment
1 AS he was passing by, Jesus saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents; but it was in order that the works of God might be manifested in him.
4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world I am the light of the world."
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground and made clay with the spittle and put the clay on the man's eyes
7 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloamwhich means Sent." He went away and washed and came back seeing.
48 He saw them distressed in rowing, for the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking on the lake and he seemed to be going past them.
49 But when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought that it was a ghost and cried out.
50 For they all saw him and were frightened. But he immediately spoke to them and said, "Courage! It is I. Do not be afraid."
51 Then he got into the boat with them and the wind dropped. They were in boundless amazement;
1 THEY came to the other side of the lake, to the land of the Gerasenes.
2 When he got out of the boat, immediately there came out of the tombs to meet him a man under the power of an impure spirit.
3 This man made his dwelling in the tombs, and nobody could bind him even with a chain,
4 because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart and the fetters broken in pieces by him, and no one was strong enough to tame him.
5 All night and all day long he was in the tombs and in the mountains, shrieking and cutting himself with stones.
6 When he saw Jesus a long way off, he ran and knelt to him
7 and shouted with a loud voice, "What have I and you to do with each other, Jesus, Son of God most high? I adjure you by God, not to torment me."
8 For Jesus had said to him, "Come out from the man, you impure spirit."
9 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "Legion is my name, for we are many."
10 Then he begged Jesus earnestly not to send them out of the country.
11 There was on the mountain-side a great herd of swine feeding,
12 and the demons begged him, "Send us to the swine and let us go into them."
13 He consented. The impure spirits came out of the man and entered into the swine. Then the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned in the lake.
14 At this, those who were feeding them fled and told it in the city and in the fields, and people came to see what had happened.
23 Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him.
24 Soon a great storm broke on the lake so that the boat was hidden under the waves; but he was sleeping.
25 His disciples came to him and woke him and said, "Master, save us. We are going down."
26 But he said, "Why are you frightened, you men of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the lake, and there was a great calm.
27 The men were astonished and said, "What sort of a person is this, whom even the winds and the lake obey?"
18 While Jesus was talking to them, a synagogue Director came and bowed down before him and said, "My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand upon her and she will live."
19 Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples.
1 THERE was a certain man sick \'97 Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.
2 It was that Mary who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 So the sisters sent to Jesus, saying, "Master, he whom you love is sick."
4 When Jesus heard it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it."
5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed where he was two days.
7 Then, after that, he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judaea again."
8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him."
11 He said this, and then he said to them, "Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."
12 The disciples said to him, "Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
13 But Jesus had spoken of his death. They thought that he was speaking of the repose of sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them frankly, "Lazarus has died,
17 One of the crowd answered, "Teacher, I have brought my son to you. He has a dumb spirit,
18 and whenever it attacks him it convulses him and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they had not the power."
19 Jesus answered, "O faithless generation! how long must I be with you? How long must I bear with you? Bring him to me."
20 They brought him to him. As soon as the spirit saw Jesus, he convulsed the boy so that he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.
21 Jesus asked the father, "How long is it since this came on him?" He said, "From early childhood.
22 Often it has thrown him into the fire or into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us."
23 Jesus said, " 'If you can'! All things are possible for one who believes."
24 At once the father of the child cried out, "I believe; help my unbelief."
25 Jesus saw that the crowd was rapidly increasing, so he rebuked the impure spirit with the words, "Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you to come out and never to enter him again."
26 He screamed and convulsed the boy and came out. The boy looked like a corpse, so that most of them said, "He is dead."
27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him and he stood up.
1 AFTER this there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 There is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesda. Around it are five colonnades.
3 In these lay a multitude of invalids \'97 blind, lame, withered.
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5 There was a man there who had had an infirmity thirty-eight years.
6 Jesus saw this man lying there and perceiving that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"
7 The sick man answered him, "I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled. While I am coming, some other man gets down before me."
8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet and walk."
9 At once the man became well and took up his pallet and began walking. That day was the Sabbath.
46 They came to Jericho. As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.
47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, "Son of David, Jesus, pity me!"
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49 Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying, "Courage; rise up; he is calling you."
50 He, throwing aside his cloak, sprang up and came to Jesus.
51 Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said, "Rabboni, I want to regain my sight."
52 Jesus said, "Go. Your faith has healed you." At once he could see and followed Jesus along the road.
21 Leaving that place, Jesus retired into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 Here a Canaanite woman of those parts came out and cried, "Sir, have pity on me, Son of David. My daughter is terribly tormented by a demon."
23 But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; she keeps calling out behind us."
24 He replied, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25 But she came and bowed before him and said, "Help me, Sir."
26 He answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
27 But she said, "Yes, Sir; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
28 Then Jesus said to her, "O woman, great is your faith. Be it to you as you will." And her daughter was cured from that hour.
31 Again leaving the region of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the lake of Galilee into the midst of the region of Decapolis.
32 They brought to him a deaf man who stammered, and begged him to lay his hand on him.
33 He took him aside from the crowd, put his fingers into his ears, and touched his tongue with spit.
34 Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said, "Ephphatha" that is, Be opened,
35 and his ears were opened, and immediately his tongue was freed and he talked plainly.
36 Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell any one. But the more he forbade them the more widely they spread it,
37 for they were astonished beyond all bounds and said, "He has done everything well. He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak."
1 AFTER this, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the Lake of Tiberias. He showed himself in this way.
2 There were together Simon Peter and Thomas, called Didymus the Twin, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee and two other disciples.
3 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said, "We will go along with you." They went out and got into a boat, but that night they caught nothing.
4 When day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach. The disciples, however, did not recognize that it was Jesus.
5 Jesus said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."
6 He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some." They cast, and now they could not draw it in for the multitude of fishes.
7 That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Master!" Simon Peter, on hearing that it was the Master, girded around him his blouse, for he was naked, and threw himself into the lake.
8 The other disciples came in the small boat, for they were not far from land \'97 about a hundred yards \'97 dragging the netful of fish.
9 When they had gotten out on land, they saw a fire of coals and fish laid on it and bread.
10 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught."
11 Simon Peter got into the boat and drew the net to land full of big fishes \'97 a hundred and fifty-three \'97 and though there were so many the net was not torn.
18 Early in the morning as he was returning to the city, he was hungry,
19 and seeing a solitary fig tree at the roadside he went to it, but found on it nothing but leaves only. He said to it, "Let there no more be fruit from you forever." The fig tree immediately withered up.
20 Upon seeing this, the disciples were astonished and said, "How suddenly the fig tree withered up!"
21 Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' that will happen,
22 and whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will obtain."
38 Jesus arose and left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon. Simon's wife's mother was suffering from a severe fever, and they asked him to help her.
39 He came and stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her. At once she rose up and waited upon them.
14 He was casting out a demon and it was dumb. After the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke and the crowds wondered.
40 There came to him a leper, begging him and kneeling to him and saying, "If you will, you can cleanse me."
41 He had compassion on him, and stretched out his hand and touched him, and said, "I do will it; be cleansed."
42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he became clean.
6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred shillings worth of bread would not be enough for them each to have a little piece."
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these for so many?"
10 Jesus said, "Make the people recline on the ground." There was much grass in the place. So the men, about five thousand in number, reclined on the ground.
11 Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks and divided them to those who were reclining, and in the same way the fishes, as much as they wanted.
12 When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces that have been left over, so that nothing may be wasted."
13 They gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.