I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him.

When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land.

He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry –

He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.

He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”

If David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him and lead him away under guard.”)

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child’s father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

Joseph of Arimathea, a highly regarded member of the council, who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]