Right away, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him came a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and experts in the law and elders.

But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.

But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

He replied, “Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.”

So he went into all of Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and at that time they will fast.

So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.”

He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.

When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,