Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe him.

Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake for one hour?

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

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

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, right at the door.

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

And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

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 they brought one, and he said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?” They replied, “Caesar’s.”

If David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

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.

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

Then he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

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.”

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.