Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

You have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?&#8221;<n id="1" /> They all condemned him as deserving death.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">[[Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

<p class="bodytext">After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

He said to them, &#8220;Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

They were all amazed so that they asked each other, &#8220;What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.&#8221;

So<n id="1" /> he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons.<n id="2" /> But<n id="3" /> he would not permit the demons to speak,<n id="4" /> because they knew him.<n id="5" />p>

He told him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;See that you do not say anything to anyone,<n id="2" /> but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded<n id="3" /> for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.&#8221;<n id="4" />

As Jesus<n id="1" /> was having a meal<n id="2" /> in Levi&#8217;s<n id="3" /> home, many tax collectors<n id="4" /> and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

But no one is able to enter a strong man&#8217;s<n id="1" /> house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.<n id="2" />

when it is sown, it grows up,<n id="1" /> becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds<n id="2" /> can nest in its shade.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

because Herod stood in awe of<n id="1" /> John and protected him, since he knew that John<n id="2" /> was a righteous and holy man. When Herod<n id="3" /> heard him, he was thoroughly baffled,<n id="4" /> and yet<n id="5" /> he liked to listen to John.<n id="6" />p>

He said to them, &#8220;Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while&#8221; (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer<n id="3" /> many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law,<n id="4" /> and be killed, and after three days rise again.

<p class="bodytext">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.

<p class="bodytext">Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked<n id="1" /> the unclean spirit,<n id="2" /> saying to it, &#8220;Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.&#8221;

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have<n id="1" /> two feet and be thrown into hell.

If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out!<n id="1" /> It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have<n id="2" /> two eyes and be thrown into hell,

David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>The Lord said to my lord,i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>Sit at my right hand,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>until I put your enemies under your feetb>.i>&#8221;&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

He called his disciples and said to them, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> this poor widow has put more into the offering box<n id="2" /> than all the others.<n id="3" />