But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

Above his head they put the charge against him, which read: “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!

Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink.

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support were also there, watching from a distance.

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.

Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

“Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!”

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” – he said to the paralytic –

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

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.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

I tell you the truth, people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter.