He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, “This is my one dear Son. Listen to him!”

When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

He appointed twelve: To Simon he gave the name Peter;

After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there.

And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

For they said, “Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.”

When she saw Peter warming himself, she looked directly at him and said, “You also were with that Nazarene, Jesus.”

Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, he came to them walking on the sea, for he wanted to pass by them.

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?”

Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!”

So he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

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?”

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?”

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him.”