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

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

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

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

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.”

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

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 said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

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

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Now as they approached Jerusalem, near Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples

Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.

Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.

So while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

“But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;