So the high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?”

At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed.

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

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

He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”

Now when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.

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

He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’

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

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.”

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

“Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

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

Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him.

And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

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

And the demonic spirits begged him, “Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them.”

When he entered he said to them, “Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”