Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him.

Then Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again. And he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

So he told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

He took Peter, James, and John with him, and became very troubled and distressed.

Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “Why do we still need witnesses?

Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

Then they crucified him and divided his clothes, throwing dice for them, to decide what each would take.

John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

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.

Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in their boat mending nets.

Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

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?

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.

He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry –

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,