He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”
He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” —he said to the paralytic—
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.
He said to them, “Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?
from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.
The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”
He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?
But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”
They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.”
He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”
For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”
For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”
Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”
When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
and said to them, “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.
They brought the young donkey to Jesus, and threw their garments on it, and Jesus sat on it.
Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Psalm 118:25-26
Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,
But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes’?” Psalm 118:22-23
But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? Exodus 3:6
Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’ Psalm 110:1
Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and will lead many astray.
Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.
For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”
Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”
However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”
They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.
Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”
The high priest tore his clothes, and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
It was the third hour, and they crucified him.
The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was counted with transgressors.”
Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.
Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.
When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Psalm 22:1
The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’”
So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.
He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ 1:17 Malachi 4:6 and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.
Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”
The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”
Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”
The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,












