Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

He proclaimed, “One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

When it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and demon-possessed.

Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”);

And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

And he said to them, “Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.

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