And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

He came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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.

Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

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

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

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

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.

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

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

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

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

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?

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up.”

He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no bag, no money in their belts –

So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”