A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

They had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

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.

Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.

The sower sows the word.

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

His disciples answered him, “Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.

Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!”

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

As they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

For whoever is not against us is for us.

Everyone will be salted with fire.

and said to them, “Go to the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.