In reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”

They spat on him and took the staff and struck him repeatedly on the head.

As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

If this matter is heard before the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”

In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

He came and raised her up by gently taking her hand. Then the fever left her and she began to serve them.

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.

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be clean!”

Jesus went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them.

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.

Then Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

So he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Stand up among all these people.”

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.