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24 Then he left that place and went away into the territory of Tyre. He found a house to stay in, and he would have liked to remain unrecognized, but this was impo 25 Almost at once a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit heard of him, came in, and fell at his feet. 26 (She was a Gentile, a Phoenician of Syria by nationality.) She begged him to drive the spirit out of her daughter. 27 He said to her, 'Let the children be satisfied first; it is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.' 28 'Sir,' she answered, 'even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps.' 29 He said to her, 'For saying that, you may go home content; the unclean spirit has gone out of your daughter.' 30 And when she returned home, she found the child lying in bed; the spirit had left her.
31 On his return journey from Tyrian territory he went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee through the territory of the Ten Towns. 32 They brought to him a man who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, with the request that he would lay his hand on him. 33 He took the man aside, away from the crowd, put his fingers into his ears, spat, and touched his tongue. 34 Then, looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, 'Ephphatha', which means 'Be opened.' 35 With that his ears were opened, and at the same time the impediment was removed and he spoke plainly. 36 Jesus forbade them to tell anyone; but the more he forbade them, the more they published it. 37 Their astonishment knew no bounds: 'All that he does, he does well,' they said; 'he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.'
81 THERE WAS ANOTHER OCCASION about this time when a huge crowd had collected, and, as they had no food, Jesus called his disciples and said to them, 2 'I feel sorry for all these people; they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them home unfed, they will turn faint on the way; some of them have come from a distance.' 4 The disciples answered, 'How can anyone provide all these people with bread in this lonely place?' 5 'How many loaves have you?' he asked; and they answered, 'Seven.' 6 So he ordered the people to sit down on the ground; then he took the seven loaves, and, after giving thanks to God, he broke the bread and gave it to his disciples to distribute; and they served it out to the people. 7 They had also a few small fishes, which she blessed and ordered them to distribute. 8 They all ate to their hearts' content, and seven baskets were filled with the scraps that were left. 9 The people numbered about four thousand. 10 Then he dismissed them; and, without delay, got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.
11 Then the Pharisees came out and engaged him in discussion. 12 To test him they asked him for a sign from heaven. He sighed deeply to himself and said, 'Why does this generation ask for a sign? I tell you this: no sign shall be given to this generation.' 13 With that he left them, re-embarked, and went off to the other side of the lake.
14 Now they had forgotten to take bread with them; they had no more than one loaf in the boat. 15 He began to warn them: 'Beware,' he said, 'be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.' 16 They said among themselves, 'It is because we have no bread.' 17 Knowing what was in their minds, he asked them, 'Why do you talk about having no bread? Have you no inkling yet? Do you still not is understand? Are your minds closed? 18 You have eyes: can you not see? You have ears: can you not hear? Have you forgotten? 19 When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many basketfuls of scraps did you pick up?' 'Twelve', they said. 20 'And how many when I broke the seven loaves among four thousand?' 21 They answered, 'Seven.' He said, 'Do you still not understand?'
22 They arrived at Bethsaida. There the people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him away out of the village. Then he' spat on his eyes, laid his hands upon him, and asked whether he could see anything. 24 The man's sight began to come back, and he said, 'I see men; they look like trees, but they are walking about.' 25 Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; he looked hard, and now he was cured so that he saw everything clearly. 26 Then Jesus sent him home, saying, 'Do not tell anyone in the village.'
27 JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, 'Who do men say I am ?' 28 They answered, 'Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others one of the prophets.' 29 'And you,' he asked, 'who do you say I am?' Peter replied: 'You are the Messiah.' 30 Then he gave them strict orders not to tell anyone about him;
34 Then he called the people to him, as well as his disciples, and said to them, 'Anyone who wishes to be a follower of mine must leave self behind; he must take up his cross, and come with me. 35 Whoever cares for his own safety is lost; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel, that man is safe. 36 What does a man gain by winning the whole world at the cost of his true self? 37 What can he give to buy that self back? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and mine in this wicked and godless age, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father and of the holy angels.'
91 He also said, 'I tell you this: there are some of those standing here who will not taste death before they have seen the kingdom of God already come in power.'
9 On their way down the mountain, he enjoined them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. 10 They seized upon those words, and discussed among themselves what this 'rising from the dead' could mean. 11 And they put a question to him: 'Why do our teachers say that Elijah must be the first to come?' 12 He replied, 'Yes, Elijah does come first to set everything right. Yet how is it that the scriptures say of the Son of Man that he is to endure great sufferings and to be treated with contempt? 13 However, I tell you, Elijah has already come and they have worked their will upon him, as the scriptures say of him.'
14 When they came back to the disciples they saw a large crowd surrounding them and lawyers arguing is with them. 15 As soon as they saw Jesus the whole crowd were overcome with awe, and they ran forward to welcome him. 16 He asked them, 'What is this argument about?' 17 A man in the crowd spoke up: 'Master, I brought my son to you. He is possessed by a spirit which makes him speechless. 18 Whenever it attacks him, is it dashes him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and goes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they failed.' 19 Jesus answered: 'What an unbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long must I endure you? Bring him to me.' 20 So they brought the boy to him; and as soon as the spirit saw him it threw the boy into convulsions, and he fell on the ground and rolled about foaming at the mouth. 21 Jesus asked his father, 'How long has he been like this?' 'From childhood,' 22 he replied; 'often it has tried to make an end of him by throwing him into the fire or into water. But if it is at all possible for you, take pity upon us and help us.' 23 'If it is possible!' said Jesus. 'Everything is possible to one who has faith.' 24 'I have faith,' cried the boy's father; 'help me where faith falls short.' 25 Jesus saw then that the crowd was closing in upon them, so he rebuked the unclean spirit. 'Deaf and dumb spirit.' he said, 'I command you, come out of him and never go back!' 26 After crying aloud and racking him fiercely, it came out; and the boy looked like a corpse; in fact, many said, 'He is dead.' 27 But Jesus took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.
28 Then Jesus went indoors, and his disciples asked him privately, 'Why could not we cast it out?' 29 He said, 'There is no means of casting out this sort but prayer.'
30 THEY NOW LEFT that district and made a journey so through Galilee. Jesus wished it to be kept secret; 31 for he was teaching his disciples, and telling them, 'The Son of Man is now to be given up into the power of men, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.' 32 But they did not understand what he said, and were afraid to ask.
33 So they came to Capernaum; and when he was indoors, he asked them, 'What were you arguing about on the way?' 34 They were silent, because on the way they had been discussing who was the greatest. 35 He sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, 'If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.' 36 Then he took a child, set him in front of them, and put his arm round him. 37 'Whoever receives one of these children in my name', he said, 'receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.'
38 John said to him, 'Master, we saw a man driving out devils in your name, and as he was not one of us, we tried to stop him.' 39 Jesus said, 'Do not stop him; no one who does a work of divine power in my name will be able in the same breath to speak evil of me. 40 For he who is not against us is on our side. 41 I tell you this: if anyone gives you a cup of water to drink because you are followers of the Messiah, that man assuredly will not go unrewarded.
42 'As for the man who leads astray one of these little ones who have faith, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone round his neck. 43 If your hand is your undoing, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed than to keep both hands and go to hell and the unquenchable fire." 44 Some manuscripts add: where the devouring worm never dies and the fire is not quenched. 45 And if it is your foot that leads you astray, cut it off; it is better to enter into life a cripple than to keep both your feet and be thrown i nto hell. 46 Some manuscripts add: where the devouring worm never dies and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if it is your eye, tear it out; it is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where the devouring worm never dies and the fire is not quenched.
49 'For everyone will be salted with fire.
50 'Salt is a good thing; but if the salt loses its saltness, what will you season it with?
'Have salt in yourselves; and be at peace with one another.'
101 ON LEAVING THOSE PARTS he came into the regions of Judaea and Transjordan; and when a crowd gathered round him once again, he followed his usual practice and taught them. 2 The question was put to him: 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?' This was to test him. 3 He asked in return, 'What did Moses command you?' 4 They answered, 'Moses permitted a man to divorce his wife by note of dismissal.' 5 Jesus said to them, 'It was because you were so unteachable that he made this rule for you; 6 but in the beginning, at the creation. God made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be made one with his wife; 8 and the two shall become one flesh. It follows that they are no longer two individuals: they are one flesh. 9 What God has joined together, man must not sePte.'
10 When they were indoors again the disciples questioned him about this matter; 11 he said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her: 12 so too, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.'
13 They brought children for him to touch; and the disciples scolded them for it. 14 But when Jesus saw this he was indignant, and said to them, 'Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 I tell you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.' 16 And he put his arms round them, laid his hands upon "them, and blessed them.
17 As he was starting out on a journey, a stranger ran up, and, kneeling before him, asked, 'Good Master, is what must I do to win eternal life?' 18 Jesus said to him, 'Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: "Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not give false evidence; do not defraud; honour your father and mother." ' 20 'But, Master,' he replied, 'I have kept all these since I was a boy.' 21 Jesus looked straight at him; his heart warmed to him, and he said, 'One thing you lack: go, sell everything you have, and give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; and come, follow me.' 22 At these words his face fell and he went away with a heavy heart; for he was a man of great wealth.
23 Jesus looked round at his disciples and said to them, 'How hard it will be for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!' 24 They were amazed that he should say this, but Jesus insisted, 'Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.' 26 They were more astonished than ever, and said to one another, 'Then who can be saved ?' 27 Jesus looked them in the face and said, 'For men it is impossible, but not for God; to God everything is possible.'
28 At this Peter spoke. 'We here', he said, 'have left everything to become your followers.' 29 Jesus said, 'I tell you this: there is no one who has given up home, brothers or sisters, mother, father or children, or land, for my sake and for the Gospel, 30 who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much-houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and land - and persecutions besides; and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last and the last first.'
32 THEY WERE ON THE ROAD, going up to Jerusalem, Jesus leading the way; and the disciples were filled with awe; while those who followed behind were afraid. He took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was to happen to him. 33 'We are now going to Jerusalem,' he said; 'and the Son of Man will be given up to the chief priests and the doctors of the law; they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the foreign power. 34 He will be mocked and spat upon, flogged and killed; and three days afterwards, he will rise again.'
35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, 'Master, we should like you to do us a favour.' 36 'What is it you want me to do?' he asked. 37 They answered, 'Grant us the right to sit in state with you, one at your right and the other at your left.' 38 Jesus said to them, 'You do not understand what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?' 39 'We can', they answered. Jesus said, 'The cup that I drink you shall drink, and the baptism I am baptized with shall be your baptism; 40 but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant; it is for those'to whom it has already been assigned.'
41 When the other ten heard this, they were indignant with James and John. 42 Jesus called them to him and said, 'You know that in the world the recognized rulers lord it over their subjects, and their great men make them feel the weight of authority. 43 That is not the way with you; among you, whoever wants to be great must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first must be the willing slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to surrender his life as a ransom for many.'
46 They came to Jericho; and as he was leaving the town, with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was seated at the roadside. 47 Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, 'Son of David, Jesus, have pity on me!' 48 Many of the people rounded on him: 'Be quiet', they said; but he shouted all the more, 'Son of David, have pity on me.' 49 Jesus stopped and said, 'Call him'; so they called the blind man and said, 'Take heart; stand up; he is calling you.' 50 At that he threw off his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. 51 Jesus said to him, 'What do you want me to do for you?' 'Master,' the blind man answered, 'I want my sight back.' 52 Jesus said to him, 'Go; your faith has cured you.' And at once he recovered his sight and followed him on the road.