So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”
And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,
and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.
And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull),
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink.
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.
And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.
Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.”
So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.
And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.
And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,
And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.
And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.”
and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”
But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.
And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea
And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.
And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.”
Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.
“Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.
And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,
He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.
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