Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?”

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.

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

And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”);

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

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

Then they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.

Then they led Jesus to the high priest, and all the chief priests and elders and experts in the law came together.

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”

Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them. Then, after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

Immediately he stood up before them, picked up the stretcher he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.