Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant

¹After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, bhe entered Capernaum. ²Now a centurion had a servant1 who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. ³When the centurion2 heard about Jesus, che sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. ⁴And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, d“He is worthy to have you do this for him, ⁵for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us eour synagogue.” ⁶And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, “Lord, fdo not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. ⁷Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But gsay the word, and let my servant be healed. ⁸For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ⁹When Jesus heard these things, hhe marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such ifaith.” ¹⁰And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.

Jesus Raises a Widow's Son

¹¹Soon afterward3 he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. ¹²As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, jthe only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. ¹³And when the Lord saw her, khe had compassion on her and lsaid to her, “Do not weep.” ¹⁴Then he came up and touched mthe bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, narise.” ¹⁵And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus4 ogave him to his mother. ¹⁶Fear seized them all, and pthey glorified God, saying, q“A great prophet has arisen among us!” and r“God has visited his people!” ¹⁷And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.

Messengers from John the Baptist

¹⁸stThe disciples of John reported all these things to him. And John, ¹⁹calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one uwho is to come, or vshall we look for another?” ²⁰And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one uwho is to come, or vshall we look for another?’” ²¹In that hour whe healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and xon many who were blind he bestowed sight. ²²And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: ythe blind receive their sight, the lame walk, zlepers5 are cleansed, and athe deaf hear, bthe dead are raised up, cthe poor have good news preached to them. ²³And blessed is the one who is dnot offended by me.”

²⁴When John's messengers had gone, Jesus6 began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out einto the wilderness to see? fA reed shaken by the wind? ²⁵What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings' courts. ²⁶What then did you go out to see? gA prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. ²⁷This is he of whom it is written,

h“‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face,

who will prepare your way before you.’

²⁸I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” ²⁹(iWhen all the people heard this, and jthe tax collectors too, they declared God just,7 jhaving been baptized with kthe baptism of John, ³⁰lbut the Pharisees and mthe lawyers nrejected othe purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

³¹“To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? ³²They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another,

“‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;

we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

³³For John the Baptist has come peating no bread and qdrinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ ³⁴The Son of Man has come reating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, sa friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ ³⁵Yet twisdom is justified by all her children.”

A Sinful Woman Forgiven

³⁶uOne of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. ³⁷vAnd behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, ³⁸and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wwiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. ³⁹Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If xthis man were ya prophet, he zwould have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” ⁴⁰And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.”

⁴¹“A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred adenarii, and the other fifty. ⁴²bWhen they could not pay, he ccancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?” ⁴³Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.” ⁴⁴Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; dyou gave me no water for my feet, but eshe has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. ⁴⁵fYou gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to gkiss my feet. ⁴⁶hYou did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. ⁴⁷Therefore I tell you, her sins, iwhich are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.” ⁴⁸And he said to her, j“Your sins are forgiven.” ⁴⁹Then those who were at table with him began to say among8 themselves, k“Who is this, who even forgives sins?” ⁵⁰And he said to the woman, l“Your faith has saved you; mgo in peace.”

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Women Accompanying Jesus

¹Soon afterward he went on nthrough cities and villages, proclaiming and obringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, ²and also psome women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: qMary, called Magdalene, rfrom whom seven demons had gone out, ³and sJoanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them1 out of their means.

The Parable of the Sower

⁴tAnd when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, ⁵u“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. ⁶And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, vit withered away, because it had no moisture. ⁷And some fell among wthorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. ⁸And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded xa hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, y“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

The Purpose of the Parables

⁹And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, ¹⁰he said, z“To you it has been given to know athe secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so bthat ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ ¹¹cNow the parable is this: The seed is dthe word of God. ¹²The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not ebelieve and be saved. ¹³And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it fwith joy. But these have no root; they gbelieve for a while, and in time of testing hfall away. ¹⁴And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but ias they go on their way they are choked by the jcares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. ¹⁵As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and kbear fruit lwith patience.

A Lamp Under a Jar

¹⁶mn“No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. ¹⁷oFor nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. ¹⁸pTake care then how you hear, qfor to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

¹⁹rThen his mother and shis brothers2 came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. ²⁰And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you.” ²¹But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those twho hear the word of God and do it.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

²²uOne day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of vthe lake.” So they set out, ²³and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on vthe lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. ²⁴And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and wrebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, xand there was a calm. ²⁵He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they ywere afraid, and they zmarveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that ahe commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”

Jesus Heals a Man with a Demon

²⁶bThen they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes,3 which is opposite Galilee. ²⁷When Jesus4 had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house cbut among the tombs. ²⁸When he saw Jesus, he dcried out and fell down before him and said dwith a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, eSon of fthe Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.” ²⁹For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon ginto the desert.) ³⁰Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, h“Legion,” for many demons had entered him. ³¹And they begged him not to command them to depart into ithe abyss. ³²Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. ³³Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into jthe lake and drowned.

³⁴When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. ³⁵Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting kat the feet of Jesus, lclothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. ³⁶And those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed5 man had been healed. ³⁷Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes masked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. ³⁸The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹“Return to your home, and ndeclare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

Jesus Heals a Woman and Jairus's Daughter

⁴⁰Now when Jesus returned, the crowd owelcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. ⁴¹pAnd there came a man named Jairus, who was qa ruler of the synagogue. And falling at Jesus' feet, he implored him to come to his house, ⁴²for he had ran only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying.

As Jesus went, the people spressed around him. ⁴³And there was a woman twho had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her uliving on physicians,6 she could not be healed by anyone. ⁴⁴She came up behind him and touched vthe fringe of his garment, and wimmediately her discharge of blood ceased. ⁴⁵And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter7 said, “Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!” ⁴⁶But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I perceive that xpower has gone out from me.” ⁴⁷And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. ⁴⁸And he said to her, “Daughter, yyour faith has made you well; ygo in peace.”

⁴⁹While he was still speaking, someone from zthe ruler's house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; ado not trouble bthe Teacher any more.” ⁵⁰But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.” ⁵¹And when he came to the house, he allowed no one to enter with him, except cPeter and dJohn and James, and the father and mother of the child. ⁵²And all were weeping and emourning for her, but he fsaid, “Do not weep, for gshe is not dead but hsleeping.” ⁵³And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. ⁵⁴But itaking her by the hand he called, saying, “Child, jarise.” ⁵⁵And kher spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat. ⁵⁶And her parents were amazed, but lhe charged them to tell no one what had happened.

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Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles

¹mAnd he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, ²nand he sent them out to oproclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. ³pAnd he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, qno staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.1 ⁴And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. ⁵And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town rshake off the dust from your feet sas a testimony tagainst them.” ⁶uAnd they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

Herod Is Perplexed by Jesus

⁷vNow wHerod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that xJohn had been raised from the dead, ⁸xby some that Elijah had appeared, and xby others that one of the prophets of old had risen. ⁹Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And yhe sought to see him.

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

¹⁰On their return zthe apostles told him all that they had done. aAnd he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida. ¹¹When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he bwelcomed them and cspoke to them of the kingdom of God and ccured those who had need of healing. ¹²Now dthe day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, e“Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.” ¹³But he said to them, f“You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than gfive loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.” ¹⁴For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.” ¹⁵And they did so, and had them all sit down. ¹⁶And taking the five loaves and the two fish, hhe looked up to heaven and isaid a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. ¹⁷And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.

Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

¹⁸jNow it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” ¹⁹And they answered, k“John the Baptist. But others say, lElijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” ²⁰Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, m“The Christ of God.”

Jesus Foretells His Death

²¹nAnd he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one, ²²osaying, p“The Son of Man must qsuffer many things and rbe rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on sthe third day be raised.”

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

²³And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him tdeny himself and utake up his cross vdaily and follow me. ²⁴For uwhoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. ²⁵wFor what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? ²⁶For xwhoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed ywhen he comes in zhis glory and the glory of the Father and of athe holy angels. ²⁷But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not btaste death cuntil they see the kingdom of God.”

The Transfiguration

²⁸dNow about eight days after these sayings he took with him ePeter and John and James and fwent up on the mountain to pray. ²⁹And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was galtered, and hhis clothing became dazzling white. ³⁰And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah, ³¹who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure,2 which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. ³²Now Peter and those who were with him iwere heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake jthey saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. ³³And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three ktents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—lnot knowing what he said. ³⁴As he was saying these things, ma cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. ³⁵And ma voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, nmy Chosen One;3 olisten to him!” ³⁶And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. pAnd they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Unclean Spirit

³⁷qOn the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. ³⁸And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for rhe is my only child. ³⁹And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him. ⁴⁰And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but sthey could not.” ⁴¹Jesus answered, “O tfaithless and twisted generation, uhow long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” ⁴²While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus vrebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and wgave him back to his father. ⁴³And all were astonished at xthe majesty of God.

Jesus Again Foretells His Death

yBut while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus4 said zto his disciples, ⁴⁴“Let these words sink into your ears: zThe Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.” ⁴⁵aBut they did not understand this saying, and bit was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

Who Is the Greatest?

⁴⁶cAn argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. ⁴⁷But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side ⁴⁸and said to them, d“Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and dwhoever receives me receives him who sent me. For ehe who is least among you all is the one who is great.”

Anyone Not Against Us Is For Us

⁴⁹fJohn answered, “Master, we saw someone gcasting out demons in your name, and hwe tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.” ⁵⁰But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, ifor the one who is not against you is for you.”

A Samaritan Village Rejects Jesus

⁵¹When the days drew near for jhim to be taken up, khe set his face lto go to Jerusalem. ⁵²And mhe sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of nthe Samaritans, to make preparations for him. ⁵³But othe people did not receive him, because phis face was set toward Jerusalem. ⁵⁴And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell qfire to come down from heaven and consume them?”5 ⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them.6 ⁵⁶And they went on to another village.

The Cost of Following Jesus

⁵⁷As they were going ralong the road, ssomeone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” ⁵⁸And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” ⁵⁹To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” ⁶⁰And Jesus7 said to him, “Leave tthe dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and uproclaim the kingdom of God.” ⁶¹Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, vbut let me first say farewell to those at my home.” ⁶²Jesus said to him, w“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

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