for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”

He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region.

Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh, “Ephphatha” (that is, “Be opened”).

He spoke openly about this. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

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

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked, “Do you see anything?”

Then he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.

I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

So he went into all of Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

And he said to them, “Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?”

He swore to her, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.

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

He is not the God of the dead but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

Pilate asked them, “Why? What has he done wrong?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”

When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.