teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

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.

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”

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

“Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!”

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” – he said to the paralytic –

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.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,

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

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

At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?”

Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up.”

So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.