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The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ When Jesus came down from the hill, large crowds followed him. ² Then a man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came to him, knelt down before him, and said, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Jesus reached out and touched him. “I do want to,” he answered. “Be clean!” At once the man was healed of his disease. ⁴ Then Jesus said to him, “Listen! Don't tell anyone, but go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then in order to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice that Moses ordered.”

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ When Jesus entered Capernaum, a Roman officer met him and begged for help:

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ “Sir, my servant is sick in bed at home, unable to move and suffering terribly.” ⁷ “I will go and make him well,” Jesus said. ⁸ “Oh no, sir,” answered the officer. “I do not deserve to have you come into my house. Just give the order, and my servant will get well.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ I, too, am a man under the authority of superior officers, and I have soldiers under me. I order this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and I order that one, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and I order my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ When Jesus heard this, he was surprised and said to the people following him, “I tell you, I have never found anyone in Israel with faith like this.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ I assure you that many will come from the east and the west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the Kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² But those who should be in the Kingdom will be thrown out into the darkness, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Then Jesus said to the officer, “Go home, and what you believe will be done for you.” And the officer's servant was healed that very moment.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Jesus went to Peter's home, and there he saw Peter's mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ He touched her hand; the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ When evening came, people brought to Jesus many who had demons in them. Jesus drove out the evil spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ He did this to make come true what the prophet Isaiah had said, “He himself took our sickness and carried away our diseases.”

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ When Jesus noticed the crowd around him, he ordered his disciples to go to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹ A teacher of the Law came to him. “Teacher,” he said, “I am ready to go with you wherever you go.”

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ Jesus answered him, “Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest.”

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Another man, who was a disciple, said, “Sir, first let me go back and bury my father.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² “Follow me,” Jesus answered, “and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ Jesus got into a boat, and his disciples went with him.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Suddenly a fierce storm hit the lake, and the boat was in danger of sinking. But Jesus was asleep.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ The disciples went to him and woke him up. “Save us, Lord!” they said. “We are about to die!”

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ “Why are you so frightened?” Jesus answered. “What little faith you have!” Then he got up and ordered the winds and the waves to stop, and there was a great calm.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Everyone was amazed. “What kind of man is this?” they said. “Even the winds and the waves obey him!”

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ When Jesus came to the territory of Gadara on the other side of the lake, he was met by two men who came out of the burial caves there. These men had demons in them and were so fierce that no one dared travel on that road.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ At once they screamed, “What do you want with us, you Son of God? Have you come to punish us before the right time?” ³⁰ Not far away there was a large herd of pigs feeding.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ So the demons begged Jesus, “If you are going to drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs.”

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² “Go,” Jesus told them; so they left and went off into the pigs. The whole herd rushed down the side of the cliff into the lake and was drowned.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ The men who had been taking care of the pigs ran away and went into the town, where they told the whole story and what had happened to the men with the demons.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ So everyone from the town went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their territory.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Jesus got into the boat and went back across the lake to his own town, ² where some people brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a bed. When Jesus saw how much faith they had, he said to the paralyzed man, “Courage, my son! Your sins are forgiven.”

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Then some teachers of the Law said to themselves, “This man is speaking blasphemy!” ⁴ Jesus perceived what they were thinking, and so he said, “Why are you thinking such evil things?

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ Is it easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ I will prove to you, then, that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, pick up your bed, and go home!” ⁷ The man got up and went home. ⁸ When the people saw it, they were afraid, and praised God for giving such authority to people.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ Jesus left that place, and as he walked along, he saw a tax collector, named Matthew, sitting in his office. He said to him, “Follow me.” Matthew got up and followed him.

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ While Jesus was having a meal in Matthew's house, many tax collectors and other outcasts came and joined Jesus and his disciples at the table.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ Some Pharisees saw this and asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with such people?”

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² Jesus heard them and answered, “People who are well do not need a doctor, but only those who are sick.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Go and find out what is meant by the scripture that says: ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts.”

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Then the followers of John the Baptist came to Jesus, asking, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast at all?”

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ Jesus answered, “Do you expect the guests at a wedding party to be sad as long as the bridegroom is with them? Of course not! But the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ “No one patches up an old coat with a piece of new cloth, for the new patch will shrink and make an even bigger hole in the coat.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Nor does anyone pour new wine into used wineskins, for the skins will burst, the wine will pour out, and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins, and both will keep in good condition.”

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ While Jesus was saying this, a Jewish official came to him, knelt down before him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and place your hands on her, and she will live.” ¹⁹ So Jesus got up and followed him, and his disciples went along with him.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ A woman who had suffered from severe bleeding for twelve years came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ She said to herself, “If only I touch his cloak, I will get well.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, my daughter! Your faith has made you well.” At that very moment the woman became well.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ Then Jesus went into the official's house. When he saw the musicians for the funeral and the people all stirred up,

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ he said, “Get out, everybody! The little girl is not dead—she is only sleeping!” Then they all started making fun of him.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ But as soon as the people had been put out, Jesus went into the girl's room and took hold of her hand, and she got up.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ The news about this spread all over that part of the country.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Jesus left that place, and as he walked along, two blind men started following him. “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” they shouted.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ When Jesus had gone indoors, the two blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I can heal you?” “Yes, sir!” they answered.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ Then Jesus touched their eyes and said, “Let it happen, then, just as you believe!”— ³⁰ and their sight was restored. Jesus spoke sternly to them, “Don't tell this to anyone!”

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ But they left and spread the news about Jesus all over that part of the country.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² As the men were leaving, some people brought to Jesus a man who could not talk because he had a demon.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ But as soon as the demon was driven out, the man started talking, and everyone was amazed. “We have never seen anything like this in Israel!” they exclaimed.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ But the Pharisees said, “It is the chief of the demons who gives Jesus the power to drive out demons.”

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ Jesus went around visiting all the towns and villages. He taught in the synagogues, preached the Good News about the Kingdom, and healed people with every kind of disease and sickness.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ As he saw the crowds, his heart was filled with pity for them, because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ So he said to his disciples, “The harvest is large, but there are few workers to gather it in.

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and every sickness. ² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee;

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; ⁴ Simon the Patriot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ These twelve men were sent out by Jesus with the following instructions: “Do not go to any Gentile territory or any Samaritan towns.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ Instead, you are to go to the lost sheep of the people of Israel. ⁷ Go and preach, ‘The Kingdom of heaven is near!’ ⁸ Heal the sick, bring the dead back to life, heal those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases, and drive out demons. You have received without paying, so give without being paid.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ Do not carry any gold, silver, or copper money in your pockets;

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ do not carry a beggar's bag for the trip or an extra shirt or shoes or a walking stick. Workers should be given what they need.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ “When you come to a town or village, go in and look for someone who is willing to welcome you, and stay with him until you leave that place.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² When you go into a house, say, ‘Peace be with you.’

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ If the people in that house welcome you, let your greeting of peace remain; but if they do not welcome you, then take back your greeting.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ And if some home or town will not welcome you or listen to you, then leave that place and shake the dust off your feet.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah than to the people of that town!

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ “Listen! I am sending you out just like sheep to a pack of wolves. You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Watch out, for there will be those who will arrest you and take you to court, and they will whip you in the synagogues.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ For my sake you will be brought to trial before rulers and kings, to tell the Good News to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ When they bring you to trial, do not worry about what you are going to say or how you will say it; when the time comes, you will be given what you will say.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ For the words you will speak will not be yours; they will come from the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ “People will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ “No pupil is greater than his teacher; no slave is greater than his master.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ “So do not be afraid of people. Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered, and every secret will be made known.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ What I am telling you in the dark you must repeat in broad daylight, and what you have heard in private you must announce from the housetops.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ For only a penny you can buy two sparrows, yet not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent. ³⁰ As for you, even the hairs of your head have all been counted.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² “Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ But those who reject me publicly, I will reject before my Father in heaven.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ I came to set sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law;

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ your worst enemies will be the members of your own family.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ “Those who love their father or mother more than me are not fit to be my disciples; those who love their son or daughter more than me are not fit to be my disciples.

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ Those who do not take up their cross and follow in my steps are not fit to be my disciples. ³⁹ Those who try to gain their own life will lose it; but those who lose their life for my sake will gain it.

Rewards

⁴⁰ “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ Whoever welcomes God's messenger because he is God's messenger, will share in his reward. And whoever welcomes a good man because he is good, will share in his reward. ⁴² You can be sure that whoever gives even a drink of cold water to one of the least of these my followers because he is my follower, will certainly receive a reward.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ When Jesus finished giving these instructions to his twelve disciples, he left that place and went off to teach and preach in the towns near there. ² When John the Baptist heard in prison about the things that Christ was doing, he sent some of his disciples to him.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ “Tell us,” they asked Jesus, “are you the one John said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?” ⁴ Jesus answered, “Go back and tell John what you are hearing and seeing:

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are brought back to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ How happy are those who have no doubts about me!” ⁷ While John's disciples were leaving, Jesus spoke about him to the crowds: “When you went out to John in the desert, what did you expect to see? A blade of grass bending in the wind? ⁸ What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in fancy clothes? People who dress like that live in palaces!

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ Tell me, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed, but you saw much more than a prophet.

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ For John is the one of whom the scripture says: ‘God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.’

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ I assure you that John the Baptist is greater than anyone who has ever lived. But the one who is least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than John.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² From the time John preached his message until this very day the Kingdom of heaven has suffered violent attacks, and violent men try to seize it.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Until the time of John all the prophets and the Law of Moses spoke about the Kingdom;

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ and if you are willing to believe their message, John is Elijah, whose coming was predicted.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ Listen, then, if you have ears!

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ “Now, to what can I compare the people of this day? They are like children sitting in the marketplace. One group shouts to the other,

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ ‘We played wedding music for you, but you wouldn't dance! We sang funeral songs, but you wouldn't cry!’

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ When John came, he fasted and drank no wine, and everyone said, ‘He has a demon in him!’ ¹⁹ When the Son of Man came, he ate and drank, and everyone said, ‘Look at this man! He is a glutton and wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and other outcasts!’ God's wisdom, however, is shown to be true by its results.”

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ The people in the towns where Jesus had performed most of his miracles did not turn from their sins, so he reproached those towns.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ “How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that they had turned from their sins!

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Tyre and Sidon than to you!

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would still be in existence today!

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ You can be sure that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to you!”

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ At that time Jesus said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ “My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest. ³⁰ For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Not long afterward Jesus was walking through some wheat fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, so they began to pick heads of wheat and eat the grain. ² When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Jesus, “Look, it is against our Law for your disciples to do this on the Sabbath!”

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Jesus answered, “Have you never read what David did that time when he and his men were hungry? ⁴ He went into the house of God, and he and his men ate the bread offered to God, even though it was against the Law for them to eat it—only the priests were allowed to eat that bread.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ Or have you not read in the Law of Moses that every Sabbath the priests in the Temple actually break the Sabbath law, yet they are not guilty?

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ I tell you that there is something here greater than the Temple. ⁷ The scripture says, ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ If you really knew what this means, you would not condemn people who are not guilty; ⁸ for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ Jesus left that place and went to a synagogue,

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ where there was a man who had a paralyzed hand. Some people were there who wanted to accuse Jesus of doing wrong, so they asked him, “Is it against our Law to heal on the Sabbath?”

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ Jesus answered, “What if one of you has a sheep and it falls into a deep hole on the Sabbath? Will you not take hold of it and lift it out?

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² And a human being is worth much more than a sheep! So then, our Law does allow us to help someone on the Sabbath.”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Then he said to the man with the paralyzed hand, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and it became well again, just like the other one.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Then the Pharisees left and made plans to kill Jesus.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ When Jesus heard about the plot against him, he went away from that place; and large crowds followed him. He healed all the sick

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ and gave them orders not to tell others about him.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ He did this so as to make come true what God had said through the prophet Isaiah:

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
the one I love, and with whom I am pleased.
I will send my Spirit upon him,
and he will announce my judgment to the nations.
¹⁹ He will not argue or shout,
or make loud speeches in the streets.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ He will not break off a bent reed,
nor put out a flickering lamp.
He will persist until he causes justice to triumph,

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ and on him all peoples will put their hope.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² Then some people brought to Jesus a man who was blind and could not talk because he had a demon. Jesus healed the man, so that he was able to talk and see.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ The crowds were all amazed at what Jesus had done. “Could he be the Son of David?” they asked.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ When the Pharisees heard this, they replied, “He drives out demons only because their ruler Beelzebul gives him power to do so.”

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ Jesus knew what they were thinking, and so he said to them, “Any country that divides itself into groups which fight each other will not last very long. And any town or family that divides itself into groups which fight each other will fall apart.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ So if one group is fighting another in Satan's kingdom, this means that it is already divided into groups and will soon fall apart!

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ You say that I drive out demons because Beelzebul gives me the power to do so. Well, then, who gives your followers the power to drive them out? What your own followers do proves that you are wrong!

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ No, it is not Beelzebul, but God's Spirit, who gives me the power to drive out demons, which proves that the Kingdom of God has already come upon you.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ “No one can break into a strong man's house and take away his belongings unless he first ties up the strong man; then he can plunder his house. ³⁰ “Anyone who is not for me is really against me; anyone who does not help me gather is really scattering.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ For this reason I tell you: people can be forgiven any sin and any evil thing they say; but whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² Anyone who says something against the Son of Man can be forgiven; but whoever says something against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven—now or ever.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ “To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ You snakes—how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ A good person brings good things out of a treasure of good things; a bad person brings bad things out of a treasure of bad things.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ “You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ Your words will be used to judge you—to declare you either innocent or guilty.”

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ Then some teachers of the Law and some Pharisees spoke up. “Teacher,” they said, “we want to see you perform a miracle.” ³⁹ “How evil and godless are the people of this day!” Jesus exclaimed. “You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of the prophet Jonah.

Rewards

⁴⁰ In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ On the Judgment Day the people of Nineveh will stand up and accuse you, because they turned from their sins when they heard Jonah preach; and I tell you that there is something here greater than Jonah! ⁴² On the Judgment Day the Queen of Sheba will stand up and accuse you, because she traveled all the way from her country to listen to King Solomon's wise teaching; and I assure you that there is something here greater than Solomon!

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ “When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ it says to itself, ‘I will go back to my house.’ So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up.

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day.”

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ Jesus was still talking to the people when his mother and brothers arrived. They stood outside, asking to speak with him.

The Parable of the Net

The Arrest of Jesus

⁴⁷ So one of the people there said to him, “Look, your mother and brothers are standing outside, and they want to speak with you.” ⁴⁸ Jesus answered, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” ⁴⁹ Then he pointed to his disciples and said, “Look! Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants is my brother, my sister, and my mother.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ That same day Jesus left the house and went to the lakeside, where he sat down to teach. ² The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the crowd stood on the shore.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ He used parables to tell them many things. “Once there was a man who went out to sow grain. ⁴ As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ Some of it fell on rocky ground, where there was little soil. The seeds soon sprouted, because the soil wasn't deep.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ But when the sun came up, it burned the young plants; and because the roots had not grown deep enough, the plants soon dried up. ⁷ Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up and choked the plants. ⁸ But some seeds fell in good soil, and the plants bore grain: some had one hundred grains, others sixty, and others thirty.”

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ And Jesus concluded, “Listen, then, if you have ears!”

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use parables when you talk to the people?”

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ Jesus answered, “The knowledge about the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² For the person who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but the person who has nothing will have taken away from him even the little he has.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ The reason I use parables in talking to them is that they look, but do not see, and they listen, but do not hear or understand.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them:
‘This people will listen and listen, but not understand;
they will look and look, but not see,

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ because their minds are dull,
and they have stopped up their ears
and have closed their eyes.
Otherwise, their eyes would see,
their ears would hear,
their minds would understand,
and they would turn to me, says God,
and I would heal them.’

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ “As for you, how fortunate you are! Your eyes see and your ears hear.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ I assure you that many prophets and many of God's people wanted very much to see what you see, but they could not, and to hear what you hear, but they did not.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “Listen, then, and learn what the parable of the sower means. ¹⁹ Those who hear the message about the Kingdom but do not understand it are like the seeds that fell along the path. The Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in them.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who receive the message gladly as soon as they hear it.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear the message; but the worries about this life and the love for riches choke the message, and they don't bear fruit.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ And the seeds sown in the good soil stand for those who hear the message and understand it: they bear fruit, some as much as one hundred, others sixty, and others thirty.”

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Jesus told them another parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man sowed good seed in his field.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ One night, when everyone was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ When the plants grew and the heads of grain began to form, then the weeds showed up.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ The man's servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, it was good seed you sowed in your field; where did the weeds come from?’

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ ‘It was some enemy who did this,’ he answered. ‘Do you want us to go and pull up the weeds?’ they asked him.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because as you gather the weeds you might pull up some of the wheat along with them. ³⁰ Let the wheat and the weeds both grow together until harvest. Then I will tell the harvest workers to pull up the weeds first, tie them in bundles and burn them, and then to gather in the wheat and put it in my barn.’”

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ Jesus told them another parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man takes a mustard seed and sows it in his field.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up, it is the biggest of all plants. It becomes a tree, so that birds come and make their nests in its branches.”

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ Jesus told them still another parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises.”

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ Jesus used parables to tell all these things to the crowds; he would not say a thing to them without using a parable.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ He did this to make come true what the prophet had said,
“I will use parables when I speak to them;
I will tell them things unknown since the creation of the world.”

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ When Jesus had left the crowd and gone indoors, his disciples came to him and said, “Tell us what the parable about the weeds in the field means.”

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ Jesus answered, “The man who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man;

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ the field is the world; the good seed is the people who belong to the Kingdom; the weeds are the people who belong to the Evil One; ³⁹ and the enemy who sowed the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvest workers are angels.

Rewards

⁴⁰ Just as the weeds are gathered up and burned in the fire, so the same thing will happen at the end of the age:

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ the Son of Man will send out his angels to gather up out of his Kingdom all those who cause people to sin and all others who do evil things, ⁴² and they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ Then God's people will shine like the sun in their Father's Kingdom. Listen, then, if you have ears!

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man happens to find a treasure hidden in a field. He covers it up again, and is so happy that he goes and sells everything he has, and then goes back and buys that field.

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ “Also, the Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man is looking for fine pearls,

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ and when he finds one that is unusually fine, he goes and sells everything he has, and buys that pearl.

The Parable of the Net

The Arrest of Jesus

⁴⁷ “Also, the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Some fishermen throw their net out in the lake and catch all kinds of fish. ⁴⁸ When the net is full, they pull it to shore and sit down to divide the fish: the good ones go into the buckets, the worthless ones are thrown away. ⁴⁹ It will be like this at the end of the age: the angels will go out and gather up the evil people from among the good ⁵⁰ and will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

New Truths and Old

⁵¹ “Do you understand these things?” Jesus asked them. “Yes,” they answered. ⁵² So he replied, “This means, then, that every teacher of the Law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who takes new and old things out of his storage room.”

Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth

(Mark 6.1-6; Luke 4.16-30)

⁵³ When Jesus finished telling these parables, he left that place ⁵⁴ and went back to his hometown. He taught in the synagogue, and those who heard him were amazed. “Where did he get such wisdom?” they asked. “And what about his miracles? ⁵⁵ Isn't he the carpenter's son? Isn't Mary his mother, and aren't James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas his brothers? ⁵⁶ Aren't all his sisters living here? Where did he get all this?”

Jesus before the Council

(Mark 14.53-65; Luke 22.54, 55, 63-71; John 18.13, 14, 19-24)

The Burial of Jesus

(Mark 15.42-47; Luke 23.50-56; John 19.38-42)

⁵⁷ And so they rejected him. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is respected everywhere except in his hometown and by his own family.” ⁵⁸ Because they did not have faith, he did not perform many miracles there.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ At that time Herod, the ruler of Galilee, heard about Jesus. ² “He is really John the Baptist, who has come back to life,” he told his officials. “That is why he has this power to perform miracles.”

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ For Herod had earlier ordered John's arrest, and he had him tied up and put in prison. He had done this because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. ⁴ For some time John the Baptist had told Herod, “It isn't right for you to be married to Herodias!”

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ Herod wanted to kill him, but he was afraid of the Jewish people, because they considered John to be a prophet.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced in front of the whole group. Herod was so pleased ⁷ that he promised her, “I swear that I will give you anything you ask for!” ⁸ At her mother's suggestion she asked him, “Give me here and now the head of John the Baptist on a plate!”

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ The king was sad, but because of the promise he had made in front of all his guests he gave orders that her wish be granted.

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ So he had John beheaded in prison.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ The head was brought in on a plate and given to the girl, who took it to her mother.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² John's disciples came, carried away his body, and buried it; then they went and told Jesus.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ When Jesus heard the news about John, he left there in a boat and went to a lonely place by himself. The people heard about it, and so they left their towns and followed him by land.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Jesus got out of the boat, and when he saw the large crowd, his heart was filled with pity for them, and he healed their sick.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ That evening his disciples came to him and said, “It is already very late, and this is a lonely place. Send the people away and let them go to the villages to buy food for themselves.”

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ “They don't have to leave,” answered Jesus. “You yourselves give them something to eat!”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ “All we have here are five loaves and two fish,” they replied.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “Then bring them here to me,” Jesus said. ¹⁹ He ordered the people to sit down on the grass; then he took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and gave thanks to God. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ Everyone ate and had enough. Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left over.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ The number of men who ate was about five thousand, not counting the women and children.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² Then Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side of the lake, while he sent the people away.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ After sending the people away, he went up a hill by himself to pray. When evening came, Jesus was there alone;

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ and by this time the boat was far out in the lake, tossed about by the waves, because the wind was blowing against it.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ Between three and six o'clock in the morning Jesus came to the disciples, walking on the water.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ When they saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. “It's a ghost!” they said, and screamed with fear.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Jesus spoke to them at once. “Courage!” he said. “It is I. Don't be afraid!”

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ Then Peter spoke up. “Lord, if it is really you, order me to come out on the water to you.”

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ “Come!” answered Jesus. So Peter got out of the boat and started walking on the water to Jesus. ³⁰ But when he noticed the strong wind, he was afraid and started to sink down in the water. “Save me, Lord!” he cried.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ At once Jesus reached out and grabbed hold of him and said, “What little faith you have! Why did you doubt?”

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² They both got into the boat, and the wind died down.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ Then the disciples in the boat worshiped Jesus. “Truly you are the Son of God!” they exclaimed.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ They crossed the lake and came to land at Gennesaret,

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ where the people recognized Jesus. So they sent for the sick people in all the surrounding country and brought them to Jesus.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ They begged him to let the sick at least touch the edge of his cloak; and all who touched it were made well.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Then some Pharisees and teachers of the Law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked him, ² “Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!”

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Jesus answered, “And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching? ⁴ For God said, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and ‘If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.’

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, ‘This belongs to God,’

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching. ⁷ You hypocrites! How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you!
⁸ ‘These people, says God, honor me with their words,
but their heart is really far away from me.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ It is no use for them to worship me,
because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!’”

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Then Jesus called the crowd to him and said to them, “Listen and understand!

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ It is not what goes into your mouth that makes you ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes you unclean.”

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt by what you said?”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ “Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up,” answered Jesus.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ “Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch.”

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ Peter spoke up, “Explain this saying to us.”

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ Jesus said to them, “You are still no more intelligent than the others.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Don't you understand? Anything that goes into your mouth goes into your stomach and then on out of your body.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make you ritually unclean. ¹⁹ For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ These are the things that make you unclean. But to eat without washing your hands as they say you should—this doesn't make you unclean.”

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Jesus left that place and went off to the territory near the cities of Tyre and Sidon.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² A Canaanite woman who lived in that region came to him. “Son of David!” she cried out. “Have mercy on me, sir! My daughter has a demon and is in a terrible condition.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ But Jesus did not say a word to her. His disciples came to him and begged him, “Send her away! She is following us and making all this noise!”

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Then Jesus replied, “I have been sent only to the lost sheep of the people of Israel.”

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ At this the woman came and fell at his feet. “Help me, sir!” she said.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.”

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ “That's true, sir,” she answered, “but even the dogs eat the leftovers that fall from their masters' table.”

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ So Jesus answered her, “You are a woman of great faith! What you want will be done for you.” And at that very moment her daughter was healed.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ Jesus left there and went along by Lake Galilee. He climbed a hill and sat down. ³⁰ Large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the dumb, and many other sick people, whom they placed at Jesus' feet; and he healed them.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ The people were amazed as they saw the dumb speaking, the crippled made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they praised the God of Israel.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me for three days and now have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without feeding them, for they might faint on their way home.”

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ The disciples asked him, “Where will we find enough food in this desert to feed this crowd?”

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ “How much bread do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven loaves,” they answered, “and a few small fish.”

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ So Jesus ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks to God, broke them, and gave them to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the people.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ They all ate and had enough. Then the disciples took up seven baskets full of pieces left over.

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ The number of men who ate was four thousand, not counting the women and children. ³⁹ Then Jesus sent the people away, got into a boat, and went to the territory of Magadan.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Some Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Jesus wanted to trap him, so they asked him to perform a miracle for them, to show that God approved of him. ² But Jesus answered, “When the sun is setting, you say, ‘We are going to have fine weather, because the sky is red.’

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ And early in the morning you say, ‘It is going to rain, because the sky is red and dark.’ You can predict the weather by looking at the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs concerning these times! ⁴ How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah.” So he left them and went away.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ When the disciples crossed over to the other side of the lake, they forgot to take any bread.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ Jesus said to them, “Take care; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ⁷ They started discussing among themselves, “He says this because we didn't bring any bread.” ⁸ Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, “Why are you discussing among yourselves about not having any bread? What little faith you have!

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ And what about the seven loaves for the four thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ How is it that you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² Then the disciples understood that he was not warning them to guard themselves from the yeast used in bread but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Jesus went to the territory near the town of Caesarea Philippi, where he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ “Some say John the Baptist,” they answered. “Others say Elijah, while others say Jeremiah or some other prophet.”

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ “What about you?” he asked them. “Who do you say I am?”

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ “Good for you, Simon son of John!” answered Jesus. “For this truth did not come to you from any human being, but it was given to you directly by my Father in heaven.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ And so I tell you, Peter: you are a rock, and on this rock foundation I will build my church, and not even death will ever be able to overcome it. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven; what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.”

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ Then Jesus ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ From that time on Jesus began to say plainly to his disciples, “I must go to Jerusalem and suffer much from the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law. I will be put to death, but three days later I will be raised to life.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “God forbid it, Lord!” he said. “That must never happen to you!”

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ Jesus turned around and said to Peter, “Get away from me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my way, because these thoughts of yours don't come from God, but from human nature.”

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you want to come with me, you must forget yourself, carry your cross, and follow me.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ For if you want to save your own life, you will lose it; but if you lose your life for my sake, you will find it.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ Will you gain anything if you win the whole world but lose your life? Of course not! There is nothing you can give to regain your life.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward each one according to his deeds.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ I assure you that there are some here who will not die until they have seen the Son of Man come as King.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and the brothers James and John and led them up a high mountain where they were alone. ² As they looked on, a change came over Jesus: his face was shining like the sun, and his clothes were dazzling white.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Then the three disciples saw Moses and Elijah talking with Jesus. ⁴ So Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, “Lord, how good it is that we are here! If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ While he was talking, a shining cloud came over them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased—listen to him!”

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ When the disciples heard the voice, they were so terrified that they threw themselves face downward on the ground. ⁷ Jesus came to them and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don't be afraid!” ⁸ So they looked up and saw no one there but Jesus.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ As they came down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Don't tell anyone about this vision you have seen until the Son of Man has been raised from death.”

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Then the disciples asked Jesus, “Why do the teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?”

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ “Elijah is indeed coming first,” answered Jesus, “and he will get everything ready.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² But I tell you that Elijah has already come and people did not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. In the same way they will also mistreat the Son of Man.”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ When they returned to the crowd, a man came to Jesus, knelt before him,

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ and said, “Sir, have mercy on my son! He is an epileptic and has such terrible attacks that he often falls in the fire or into water.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Jesus answered, “How unbelieving and wrong you people are! How long must I stay with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring the boy here to me!”

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ Jesus gave a command to the demon, and it went out of the boy, and at that very moment he was healed. ¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked him, “Why couldn't we drive the demon out?”

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ “It was because you do not have enough faith,” answered Jesus. “I assure you that if you have faith as big as a mustard seed, you can say to this hill, ‘Go from here to there!’ and it will go. You could do anything!”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² When the disciples all came together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be handed over to those

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ who will kill him; but three days later he will be raised to life.” The disciples became very sad.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ When Jesus and his disciples came to Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your teacher pay the Temple tax?”

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ “Of course,” Peter answered. When Peter went into the house, Jesus spoke up first, “Simon, what is your opinion? Who pays duties or taxes to the kings of this world? The citizens of the country or the foreigners?”

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ “The foreigners,” answered Peter. “Well, then,” replied Jesus, “that means that the citizens don't have to pay.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ But we don't want to offend these people. So go to the lake and drop in a line. Pull up the first fish you hook, and in its mouth you will find a coin worth enough for my Temple tax and yours. Take it and pay them our taxes.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ At that time the disciples came to Jesus, asking, “Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?” ² So Jesus called a child to come and stand in front of them,

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. ⁴ The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ And whoever welcomes in my name one such child as this, welcomes me.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ “If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea. ⁷ How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen—but how terrible for the one who causes them! ⁸ “If your hand or your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life without a hand or a foot than to keep both hands and both feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ “See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² “What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ In just the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you, go to him and show him his fault. But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you, so that ‘every accusation may be upheld by the testimony of two or more witnesses,’ as the scripture says.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ And if he will not listen to them, then tell the whole thing to the church. Finally, if he will not listen to the church, treat him as though he were a pagan or a tax collector.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “And so I tell all of you: what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. ¹⁹ “And I tell you more: whenever two of you on earth agree about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ For where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them.”

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² “No, not seven times,” answered Jesus, “but seventy times seven,

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ because the Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who decided to check on his servants' accounts.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ He had just begun to do so when one of them was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ The servant did not have enough to pay his debt, so the king ordered him to be sold as a slave, with his wife and his children and all that he had, in order to pay the debt.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ The servant fell on his knees before the king. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay you everything!’

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ The king felt sorry for him, so he forgave him the debt and let him go.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he said.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ His fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back!’ ³⁰ But he refused; instead, he had him thrown into jail until he should pay the debt.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ When the other servants saw what had happened, they were very upset and went to the king and told him everything.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² So he called the servant in. ‘You worthless slave!’ he said. ‘I forgave you the whole amount you owed me, just because you asked me to.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ You should have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you.’

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ The king was very angry, and he sent the servant to jail to be punished until he should pay back the whole amount.”

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ And Jesus concluded, “That is how my Father in heaven will treat every one of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ When Jesus finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan River. ² Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him by asking, “Does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife for whatever reason he wishes?” ⁴ Jesus answered, “Haven't you read the scripture that says that in the beginning the Creator made people male and female?

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ And God said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.’

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.” ⁷ The Pharisees asked him, “Why, then, did Moses give the law for a man to hand his wife a divorce notice and send her away?” ⁸ Jesus answered, “Moses gave you permission to divorce your wives because you are so hard to teach. But it was not like that at the time of creation.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ I tell you, then, that any man who divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, commits adultery if he marries some other woman.”

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ His disciples said to him, “If this is how it is between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ Jesus answered, “This teaching does not apply to everyone, but only to those to whom God has given it.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² For there are different reasons why men cannot marry: some, because they were born that way; others, because men made them that way; and others do not marry for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Let him who can accept this teaching do so.”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and to pray for them, but the disciples scolded the people.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Jesus said, “Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ He placed his hands on them and then went away.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ Once a man came to Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what good thing must I do to receive eternal life?”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ “Why do you ask me concerning what is good?” answered Jesus. “There is only One who is good. Keep the commandments if you want to enter life.”

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “What commandments?” he asked. Jesus answered, “Do not commit murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not accuse anyone falsely; ¹⁹ respect your father and your mother; and love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ “I have obeyed all these commandments,” the young man replied. “What else do I need to do?”

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was very rich.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ Jesus then said to his disciples, “I assure you: it will be very hard for rich people to enter the Kingdom of heaven.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ I repeat: it is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ When the disciples heard this, they were completely amazed. “Who, then, can be saved?” they asked.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ Jesus looked straight at them and answered, “This is impossible for human beings, but for God everything is possible.”

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Then Peter spoke up. “Look,” he said, “we have left everything and followed you. What will we have?”

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ Jesus said to them, “You can be sure that when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in the New Age, then you twelve followers of mine will also sit on thrones, to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake, will receive a hundred times more and will be given eternal life. ³⁰ But many who now are first will be last, and many who now are last will be first.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a man who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. ² He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ He went out again to the marketplace at nine o'clock and saw some men standing there doing nothing, ⁴ so he told them, ‘You also go and work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage.’

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ So they went. Then at twelve o'clock and again at three o'clock he did the same thing.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ It was nearly five o'clock when he went to the marketplace and saw some other men still standing there. ‘Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?’ he asked them. ⁷ ‘No one hired us,’ they answered. ‘Well, then, you go and work in the vineyard,’ he told them. ⁸ “When evening came, the owner told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first.’

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each.

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, they thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ They took their money and started grumbling against the employer.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘while we put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun—yet you paid them the same as you paid us!’

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ ‘Listen, friend,’ the owner answered one of them, ‘I have not cheated you. After all, you agreed to do a day's work for one silver coin.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Now take your pay and go home. I want to give this man who was hired last as much as I gave you.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?’”

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ And Jesus concluded, “So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last.”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and spoke to them privately, as they walked along.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “Listen,” he told them, “we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death ¹⁹ and then hand him over to the Gentiles, who will make fun of him, whip him, and crucify him; but three days later he will be raised to life.”

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ Then the wife of Zebedee came to Jesus with her two sons, bowed before him, and asked him for a favor.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ “What do you want?” Jesus asked her. She answered, “Promise me that these two sons of mine will sit at your right and your left when you are King.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² “You don't know what you are asking for,” Jesus answered the sons. “Can you drink the cup of suffering that I am about to drink?” “We can,” they answered.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ “You will indeed drink from my cup,” Jesus told them, “but I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. These places belong to those for whom my Father has prepared them.”

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ When the other ten disciples heard about this, they became angry with the two brothers.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ So Jesus called them all together and said, “You know that the rulers of the heathen have power over them, and the leaders have complete authority.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ This, however, is not the way it shall be among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest;

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of the others—

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.”

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd was following. ³⁰ Two blind men who were sitting by the road heard that Jesus was passing by, so they began to shout, “Son of David! Have mercy on us, sir!”

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ The crowd scolded them and told them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Son of David! Have mercy on us, sir!”

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked them.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ “Sir,” they answered, “we want you to give us our sight!”

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ Jesus had pity on them and touched their eyes; at once they were able to see, and they followed him.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ As Jesus and his disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives. There Jesus sent two of the disciples on ahead ² with these instructions: “Go to the village there ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied up with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to me.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ And if anyone says anything, tell him, ‘The Master needs them’; and then he will let them go at once.” ⁴ This happened in order to make come true what the prophet had said:

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ “Tell the city of Zion,
Look, your king is coming to you!
He is humble and rides on a donkey
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ So the disciples went and did what Jesus had told them to do: ⁷ they brought the donkey and the colt, threw their cloaks over them, and Jesus got on. ⁸ A large crowd of people spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ The crowds walking in front of Jesus and those walking behind began to shout, “Praise to David's Son! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! Praise be to God!”

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was thrown into an uproar. “Who is he?” the people asked.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee,” the crowds answered.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the stools of those who sold pigeons,

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ and said to them, “It is written in the Scriptures that God said, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it a hideout for thieves!”

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ The chief priests and the teachers of the Law became angry when they saw the wonderful things he was doing and the children shouting in the Temple, “Praise to David's Son!”

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ So they asked Jesus, “Do you hear what they are saying?” “Indeed I do,” answered Jesus. “Haven't you ever read this scripture? ‘You have trained children and babies to offer perfect praise.’”

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Jesus left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ On his way back to the city early next morning, Jesus was hungry. ¹⁹ He saw a fig tree by the side of the road and went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. So he said to the tree, “You will never again bear fruit!” At once the fig tree dried up.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ The disciples saw this and were astounded. “How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?” they asked.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ Jesus answered, “I assure you that if you believe and do not doubt, you will be able to do what I have done to this fig tree. And not only this, but you will even be able to say to this hill, ‘Get up and throw yourself in the sea,’ and it will.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ Jesus came back to the Temple; and as he taught, the chief priests and the elders came to him and asked, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you such right?”

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Jesus answered them, “I will ask you just one question, and if you give me an answer, I will tell you what right I have to do these things.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ Where did John's right to baptize come from: was it from God or from human beings?” They started to argue among themselves, “What shall we say? If we answer, ‘From God,’ he will say to us, ‘Why, then, did you not believe John?’

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ But if we say, ‘From human beings,’ we are afraid of what the people might do, because they are all convinced that John was a prophet.”

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ So they answered Jesus, “We don't know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “Now, what do you think? There was once a man who had two sons. He went to the older one and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ ‘I don't want to,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. ³⁰ Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. ‘Yes, sir,’ he answered, but he did not go.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ Which one of the two did what his father wanted?” “The older one,” they answered. So Jesus said to them, “I tell you: the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² For John the Baptist came to you showing you the right path to take, and you would not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. Even when you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ “Listen to another parable,” Jesus said. “There was once a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a hole for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to tenants and left home on a trip.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent his slaves to the tenants to receive his share of the harvest.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ The tenants grabbed his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ Again the man sent other slaves, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ Last of all he sent his son to them. ‘Surely they will respect my son,’ he said.

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and we will get his property!’ ³⁹ So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

Rewards

⁴⁰ “Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” Jesus asked.

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ “He will certainly kill those evil men,” they answered, “and rent the vineyard out to other tenants, who will give him his share of the harvest at the right time.” ⁴² Jesus said to them, “Haven't you ever read what the Scriptures say?
‘The stone which the builders rejected as worthless
turned out to be the most important of all.
This was done by the Lord;
what a wonderful sight it is!’

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ “And so I tell you,” added Jesus, “the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce the proper fruits.”

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ The chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus' parables and knew that he was talking about them,

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ so they tried to arrest him. But they were afraid of the crowds, who considered Jesus to be a prophet.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Jesus again used parables in talking to the people. ² “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ He sent his servants to tell the invited guests to come to the feast, but they did not want to come. ⁴ So he sent other servants with this message for the guests: ‘My feast is ready now; my steers and prize calves have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!’

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ But the invited guests paid no attention and went about their business: one went to his farm, another to his store,

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ while others grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them. ⁷ The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city. ⁸ Then he called his servants and said to them, ‘My wedding feast is ready, but the people I invited did not deserve it.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ Now go to the main streets and invite to the feast as many people as you find.’

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, good and bad alike; and the wedding hall was filled with people.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ “The king went in to look at the guests and saw a man who was not wearing wedding clothes.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ the king asked him. But the man said nothing.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him outside in the dark. There he will cry and gnash his teeth.’”

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ And Jesus concluded, “Many are invited, but few are chosen.”

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ The Pharisees went off and made a plan to trap Jesus with questions.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ Then they sent to him some of their disciples and some members of Herod's party. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you tell the truth. You teach the truth about God's will for people, without worrying about what others think, because you pay no attention to anyone's status.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Tell us, then, what do you think? Is it against our Law to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor, or not?”

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ Jesus, however, was aware of their evil plan, and so he said, “You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me? ¹⁹ Show me the coin for paying the tax!” They brought him the coin,

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ and he asked them, “Whose face and name are these?”

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ “The Emperor's,” they answered. So Jesus said to them, “Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ That same day some Sadducees came to Jesus and claimed that people will not rise from death.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ “Teacher,” they said, “Moses said that if a man who has no children dies, his brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will be considered the dead man's children.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ Now, there were seven brothers who used to live here. The oldest got married and died without having children, so he left his widow to his brother.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ The same thing happened to the second brother, to the third, and finally to all seven.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Last of all, the woman died.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All of them had married her.”

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ Jesus answered them, “How wrong you are! It is because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power. ³⁰ For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ Now, as for the dead rising to life: haven't you ever read what God has told you? He said,

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is the God of the living, not of the dead.”

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they came together,

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ and one of them, a teacher of the Law, tried to trap him with a question.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ “Teacher,” he asked, “which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ Jesus answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ This is the greatest and the most important commandment. ³⁹ The second most important commandment is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

Rewards

⁴⁰ The whole Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ When some Pharisees gathered together, Jesus asked them, ⁴² “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?” “He is David's descendant,” they answered.

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ “Why, then,” Jesus asked, “did the Spirit inspire David to call him ‘Lord’? David said,

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ ‘The Lord said to my Lord:
Sit here at my right side
until I put your enemies under your feet.’

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ If, then, David called him ‘Lord,’ how can the Messiah be David's descendant?”

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ No one was able to give Jesus any answer, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples. ² “The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees are the authorized interpreters of Moses' Law.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ So you must obey and follow everything they tell you to do; do not, however, imitate their actions, because they don't practice what they preach. ⁴ They tie onto people's backs loads that are heavy and hard to carry, yet they aren't willing even to lift a finger to help them carry those loads.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ They do everything so that people will see them. Look at the straps with scripture verses on them which they wear on their foreheads and arms, and notice how large they are! Notice also how long are the tassels on their cloaks!

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ They love the best places at feasts and the reserved seats in the synagogues; ⁷ they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to have people call them ‘Teacher.’ ⁸ You must not be called ‘Teacher,’ because you are all equal and have only one Teacher.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ And you must not call anyone here on earth ‘Father,’ because you have only the one Father in heaven.

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Nor should you be called ‘Leader,’ because your one and only leader is the Messiah.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ The greatest one among you must be your servant.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² Whoever makes himself great will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be made great.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven in people's faces, but you yourselves don't go in, nor do you allow in those who are trying to enter!

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You sail the seas and cross whole countries to win one convert; and when you succeed, you make him twice as deserving of going to hell as you yourselves are!

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ “How terrible for you, blind guides! You teach, ‘If someone swears by the Temple, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gold in the Temple, he is bound.’

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Blind fools! Which is more important, the gold or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ You also teach, ‘If someone swears by the altar, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gift on the altar, he is bound.’ ¹⁹ How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ So then, when a person swears by the altar, he is swearing by it and by all the gifts on it;

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ and when he swears by the Temple, he is swearing by it and by God, who lives there;

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² and when someone swears by heaven, he is swearing by God's throne and by him who sits on it.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You give to God one tenth even of the seasoning herbs, such as mint, dill, and cumin, but you neglect to obey the really important teachings of the Law, such as justice and mercy and honesty. These you should practice, without neglecting the others.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Blind guides! You strain a fly out of your drink, but swallow a camel!

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and plate, while the inside is full of what you have gotten by violence and selfishness.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You make fine tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of those who lived good lives; ³⁰ and you claim that if you had lived during the time of your ancestors, you would not have done what they did and killed the prophets.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day!

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty. ³⁹ From now on, I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, ‘God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Jesus left and was going away from the Temple when his disciples came to him to call his attention to its buildings. ² “Yes,” he said, “you may well look at all these. I tell you this: not a single stone here will be left in its place; every one of them will be thrown down.”

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ As Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him in private. “Tell us when all this will be,” they asked, “and what will happen to show that it is the time for your coming and the end of the age.” ⁴ Jesus answered, “Watch out, and do not let anyone fool you.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ Many men, claiming to speak for me, will come and say, ‘I am the Messiah!’ and they will fool many people.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ You are going to hear the noise of battles close by and the news of battles far away; but do not be troubled. Such things must happen, but they do not mean that the end has come. ⁷ Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one another. There will be famines and earthquakes everywhere. ⁸ All these things are like the first pains of childbirth.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ “Then you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and be put to death. Everyone will hate you because of me.

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Many will give up their faith at that time; they will betray one another and hate one another.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ Then many false prophets will appear and fool many people.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² Such will be the spread of evil that many people's love will grow cold.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ And this Good News about the Kingdom will be preached through all the world for a witness to all people; and then the end will come.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ “You will see ‘The Awful Horror’ of which the prophet Daniel spoke. It will be standing in the holy place.” (Note to the reader: understand what this means!)

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ “Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ Someone who is on the roof of a house must not take the time to go down and get any belongings from the house.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ Someone who is in the field must not go back to get a cloak. ¹⁹ How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies!

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ Pray to God that you will not have to run away during the winter or on a Sabbath!

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ For the trouble at that time will be far more terrible than any there has ever been, from the beginning of the world to this very day. Nor will there ever be anything like it again.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² But God has already reduced the number of days; had he not done so, nobody would survive. For the sake of his chosen people, however, God will reduce the days.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ “Then, if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or ‘There he is!’—do not believe it.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear; they will perform great miracles and wonders in order to deceive even God's chosen people, if possible.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ Listen! I have told you this ahead of time.

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ “Or, if people should tell you, ‘Look, he is out in the desert!’—don't go there; or if they say, ‘Look, he is hiding here!’—don't believe it.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ For the Son of Man will come like the lightning which flashes across the whole sky from the east to the west.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ “Soon after the trouble of those days, the sun will grow dark, the moon will no longer shine, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers in space will be driven from their courses. ³⁰ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky; and all the peoples of earth will weep as they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ The great trumpet will sound, and he will send out his angels to the four corners of the earth, and they will gather his chosen people from one end of the world to the other.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² “Let the fig tree teach you a lesson. When its branches become green and tender and it starts putting out leaves, you know that summer is near.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ In the same way, when you see all these things, you will know that the time is near, ready to begin.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ Remember that all these things will happen before the people now living have all died.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ “No one knows, however, when that day and hour will come—neither the angels in heaven nor the Son; the Father alone knows.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ The coming of the Son of Man will be like what happened in the time of Noah.

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ In the days before the flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat; ³⁹ yet they did not realize what was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

Rewards

⁴⁰ At that time two men will be working in a field: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind.

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ Two women will be at a mill grinding meal: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind. ⁴² Watch out, then, because you do not know what day your Lord will come.

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ If the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, you can be sure that he would stay awake and not let the thief break into his house.

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ So then, you also must always be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ “Who, then, is a faithful and wise servant? It is the one that his master has placed in charge of the other servants to give them their food at the proper time.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ How happy that servant is if his master finds him doing this when he comes home!

The Parable of the Net

The Arrest of Jesus

⁴⁷ Indeed, I tell you, the master will put that servant in charge of all his property. ⁴⁸ But if he is a bad servant, he will tell himself that his master will not come back for a long time, ⁴⁹ and he will begin to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. ⁵⁰ Then that servant's master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know.

New Truths and Old

⁵¹ The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the hypocrites. There he will cry and gnash his teeth.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ “At that time the Kingdom of heaven will be like this. Once there were ten young women who took their oil lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. ² Five of them were foolish, and the other five were wise.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any extra oil with them, ⁴ while the wise ones took containers full of oil for their lamps.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ The bridegroom was late in coming, so they began to nod and fall asleep.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ “It was already midnight when the cry rang out, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come and meet him!’ ⁷ The ten young women woke up and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ Then the foolish ones said to the wise ones, ‘Let us have some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ ‘No, indeed,’ the wise ones answered, ‘there is not enough for you and for us. Go to the store and buy some for yourselves.’

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ So the foolish ones went off to buy some oil; and while they were gone, the bridegroom arrived. The five who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was closed.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ “Later the others arrived. ‘Sir, sir! Let us in!’ they cried out.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² ‘Certainly not! I don't know you,’ the bridegroom answered.”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ And Jesus concluded, “Watch out, then, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ “At that time the Kingdom of heaven will be like this. Once there was a man who was about to leave home on a trip; he called his servants and put them in charge of his property.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ He gave to each one according to his ability: to one he gave five thousand gold coins, to another he gave two thousand, and to another he gave one thousand. Then he left on his trip.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ The servant who had received five thousand coins went at once and invested his money and earned another five thousand.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ In the same way the servant who had received two thousand coins earned another two thousand.

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ But the servant who had received one thousand coins went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money. ¹⁹ “After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ The servant who had received five thousand coins came in and handed over the other five thousand. ‘You gave me five thousand coins, sir,’ he said. ‘Look! Here are another five thousand that I have earned.’

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant!’ said his master. ‘You have been faithful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness!’

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² Then the servant who had been given two thousand coins came in and said, ‘You gave me two thousand coins, sir. Look! Here are another two thousand that I have earned.’

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant!’ said his master. ‘You have been faithful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness!’

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ Then the servant who had received one thousand coins came in and said, ‘Sir, I know you are a hard man; you reap harvests where you did not plant, and you gather crops where you did not scatter seed.

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ I was afraid, so I went off and hid your money in the ground. Look! Here is what belongs to you.’

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ ‘You bad and lazy servant!’ his master said. ‘You knew, did you, that I reap harvests where I did not plant, and gather crops where I did not scatter seed?

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Well, then, you should have deposited my money in the bank, and I would have received it all back with interest when I returned.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ Now, take the money away from him and give it to the one who has ten thousand coins.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ For to every person who has something, even more will be given, and he will have more than enough; but the person who has nothing, even the little that he has will be taken away from him. ³⁰ As for this useless servant—throw him outside in the darkness; there he will cry and gnash his teeth.’

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ “When the Son of Man comes as King and all the angels with him, he will sit on his royal throne,

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² and the people of all the nations will be gathered before him. Then he will divide them into two groups, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ He will put the righteous people at his right and the others at his left.

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ Then the King will say to the people on his right, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and you received me in your homes,

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you took care of me, in prison and you visited me.’

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ The righteous will then answer him, ‘When, Lord, did we ever see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink?

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ When did we ever see you a stranger and welcome you in our homes, or naked and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we ever see you sick or in prison, and visit you?’

Rewards

⁴⁰ The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!’

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels! ⁴² I was hungry but you would not feed me, thirsty but you would not give me a drink;

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ I was a stranger but you would not welcome me in your homes, naked but you would not clothe me; I was sick and in prison but you would not take care of me.’

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ Then they will answer him, ‘When, Lord, did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and we would not help you?’

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ The King will reply, ‘I tell you, whenever you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refused to help me.’

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ These, then, will be sent off to eternal punishment, but the righteous will go to eternal life.”

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ When Jesus had finished teaching all these things, he said to his disciples, ² “In two days, as you know, it will be the Passover Festival, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ Then the chief priests and the elders met together in the palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest, ⁴ and made plans to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ “We must not do it during the festival,” they said, “or the people will riot.”

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. ⁷ While Jesus was eating, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar filled with an expensive perfume, which she poured on his head. ⁸ The disciples saw this and became angry. “Why all this waste?” they asked.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ “This perfume could have been sold for a large amount and the money given to the poor!”

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ Jesus knew what they were saying, and so he said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? It is a fine and beautiful thing that she has done for me.

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² What she did was to pour this perfume on my body to get me ready for burial.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ Now, I assure you that wherever this gospel is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve disciples—the one named Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ and asked, “What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?” They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to him.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ From then on Judas was looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Where do you want us to get the Passover meal ready for you?”

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ “Go to a certain man in the city,” he said to them, “and tell him: ‘The Teacher says, My hour has come; my disciples and I will celebrate the Passover at your house.’” ¹⁹ The disciples did as Jesus had told them and prepared the Passover meal.

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ When it was evening, Jesus and the twelve disciples sat down to eat.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ During the meal Jesus said, “I tell you, one of you will betray me.”

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² The disciples were very upset and began to ask him, one after the other, “Surely, Lord, you don't mean me?”

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ Jesus answered, “One who dips his bread in the dish with me will betray me.

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ The Son of Man will die as the Scriptures say he will, but how terrible for that man who will betray the Son of Man! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!”

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ Judas, the traitor, spoke up. “Surely, Teacher, you don't mean me?” he asked. Jesus answered, “So you say.”

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ While they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread, gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples. “Take and eat it,” he said; “this is my body.”

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Then he took a cup, gave thanks to God, and gave it to them. “Drink it, all of you,” he said;

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ “this is my blood, which seals God's covenant, my blood poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ I tell you, I will never again drink this wine until the day I drink the new wine with you in my Father's Kingdom.” ³⁰ Then they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ Then Jesus said to them, “This very night all of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, ‘God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² But after I am raised to life, I will go to Galilee ahead of you.”

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, “I will never leave you, even though all the rest do!”

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ Jesus said to Peter, “I tell you that before the rooster crows tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me.”

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ Peter answered, “I will never say that, even if I have to die with you!” And all the other disciples said the same thing.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee. Grief and anguish came over him,

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ and he said to them, “The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me. Stay here and keep watch with me.” ³⁹ He went a little farther on, threw himself face downward on the ground, and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from me! Yet not what I want, but what you want.”

Rewards

⁴⁰ Then he returned to the three disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, “How is it that you three were not able to keep watch with me for even one hour?

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ Keep watch and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” ⁴² Once more Jesus went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup of suffering cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will be done.”

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ He returned once more and found the disciples asleep; they could not keep their eyes open.

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ Again Jesus left them, went away, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ Then he returned to the disciples and said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look! The hour has come for the Son of Man to be handed over to the power of sinners.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ Get up, let us go. Look, here is the man who is betraying me!”

The Parable of the Net

The Arrest of Jesus

⁴⁷ Jesus was still speaking when Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs and sent by the chief priests and the elders. ⁴⁸ The traitor had given the crowd a signal: “The man I kiss is the one you want. Arrest him!” ⁴⁹ Judas went straight to Jesus and said, “Peace be with you, Teacher,” and kissed him. ⁵⁰ Jesus answered, “Be quick about it, friend!” Then they came up, arrested Jesus, and held him tight.

New Truths and Old

⁵¹ One of those who were with Jesus drew his sword and struck at the High Priest's slave, cutting off his ear. ⁵² “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “All who take the sword will die by the sword.

Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth

(Mark 6.1-6; Luke 4.16-30)

⁵³ Don't you know that I could call on my Father for help, and at once he would send me more than twelve armies of angels? ⁵⁴ But in that case, how could the Scriptures come true which say that this is what must happen?” ⁵⁵ Then Jesus spoke to the crowd, “Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw? Every day I sat down and taught in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. ⁵⁶ But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.” Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

Jesus before the Council

(Mark 14.53-65; Luke 22.54, 55, 63-71; John 18.13, 14, 19-24)

The Burial of Jesus

(Mark 15.42-47; Luke 23.50-56; John 19.38-42)

⁵⁷ Those who had arrested Jesus took him to the house of Caiaphas, the High Priest, where the teachers of the Law and the elders had gathered together. ⁵⁸ Peter followed from a distance, as far as the courtyard of the High Priest's house. He went into the courtyard and sat down with the guards to see how it would all come out. ⁵⁹ The chief priests and the whole Council tried to find some false evidence against Jesus to put him to death; ⁶⁰ but they could not find any, even though many people came forward and told lies about him. Finally two men stepped up ⁶¹ and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to tear down God's Temple and three days later build it back up.’”

The Guard at the Tomb

⁶² The High Priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Have you no answer to give to this accusation against you?” ⁶³ But Jesus kept quiet. Again the High Priest spoke to him, “In the name of the living God I now put you under oath: tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” ⁶⁴ Jesus answered him, “So you say. But I tell all of you: from this time on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right side of the Almighty and coming on the clouds of heaven!” ⁶⁵ At this the High Priest tore his clothes and said, “Blasphemy! We don't need any more witnesses! You have just heard his blasphemy! ⁶⁶ What do you think?” They answered, “He is guilty and must die.” ⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and beat him; and those who slapped him ⁶⁸ said, “Prophesy for us, Messiah! Guess who hit you!”

Peter Denies Jesus

(Mark 14.66-72; Luke 22.56-62; John 18.15-18, 25-27)

⁶⁹ Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard when one of the High Priest's servant women came to him and said, “You, too, were with Jesus of Galilee.” ⁷⁰ But he denied it in front of them all. “I don't know what you are talking about,” he answered, ⁷¹ and went on out to the entrance of the courtyard. Another servant woman saw him and said to the men there, “He was with Jesus of Nazareth.” ⁷² Again Peter denied it and answered, “I swear that I don't know that man!” ⁷³ After a little while the men standing there came to Peter. “Of course you are one of them,” they said. “After all, the way you speak gives you away!” ⁷⁴ Then Peter said, “I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know that man!” Just then a rooster crowed, ⁷⁵ and Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you do not know me.” He went out and wept bitterly.

Jesus Heals a Man

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

The Twelve Apostles

The Messengers from John the Baptist

The Question about the Sabbath

The Parable of the Sower

The Death of John the Baptist

The Teaching of the Ancestors

The Demand for a Miracle

The Transfiguration

Who Is the Greatest?

Jesus Teaches about Divorce

The Workers in the Vineyard

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

(Mark 12.38, 39; Luke 11.43, 46; 20.45, 46)

Jesus Speaks of the Destruction of the Temple

(Mark 13.1, 2; Luke 21.5, 6)

The Parable of the Ten Young Women

The Plot against Jesus

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

¹ Early in the morning all the chief priests and the elders made their plans against Jesus to put him to death. ² They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.

Troubles and Persecutions

The Death of Judas

(Acts 1.18, 19)

³ When Judas, the traitor, learned that Jesus had been condemned, he repented and took back the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. ⁴ “I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!” he said. “What do we care about that?” they answered. “That is your business!”

Jesus Heals a Roman Officer's Servant

The Mission of the Twelve

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.

Temptations to Sin

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

⁶ The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “This is blood money, and it is against our Law to put it in the Temple treasury.” ⁷ After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners. ⁸ That is why that field is called “Field of Blood” to this very day.

Jesus Calls Matthew

The Man with a Paralyzed Hand

⁹ Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: “They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,

The Purpose of the Parables

The Things That Make a Person Unclean

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ and used the money to buy the potter's field, as the Lord had commanded me.”

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹ Jesus stood before the Roman governor, who questioned him. “Are you the king of the Jews?” he asked. “So you say,” answered Jesus.

Jesus Goes to the Temple

¹² But he said nothing in response to the accusations of the chief priests and elders.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Peter's Declaration about Jesus

Jesus Blesses Little Children

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

(Mark 12.40; Luke 11.39-42, 44, 52; 20.47)

¹³ So Pilate said to him, “Don't you hear all these things they accuse you of”

Jesus Heals Many People

The Question about Fasting

Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon

The Parable of the Three Servants

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ But Jesus refused to answer a single word, with the result that the Governor was greatly surprised.

God's Chosen Servant

When Someone Sins

The Question about Paying Taxes

The Awful Horror

Jesus Is Sentenced to Death

¹⁵ At every Passover Festival the Roman governor was in the habit of setting free any one prisoner the crowd asked for.

Coming Persecutions

The Rich Young Man

¹⁶ At that time there was a well-known prisoner named Jesus Barabbas.

Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death

Jesus Eats the Passover Meal with His Disciples

(Mark 14.12-21; Luke 22.7-13, 21-23; John 13.21-30)

¹⁷ So when the crowd gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to set free for you? Jesus Barabbas or Jesus called the Messiah?”

The Would-Be Followers of Jesus

The Official's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower

Prohibiting and Permitting

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

(Mark 11.12-14, 20-24)

¹⁸ He knew very well that the Jewish authorities had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous. ¹⁹ While Pilate was sitting in the judgment hall, his wife sent him a message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, because in a dream last night I suffered much on account of him.”

The Unbelieving Towns

A Mother's Request

²⁰ The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to set Barabbas free and have Jesus put to death.

A Woman's Faith

Jesus Speaks about His Suffering and Death

(Mark 8.31—9.1; Luke 9.22-27)

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²¹ But Pilate asked the crowd, “Which one of these two do you want me to set free for you?” “Barabbas!” they answered.

Jesus and Beelzebul

Jesus Walks on the Water

Jesus Speaks Again about His Death

²² “What, then, shall I do with Jesus called the Messiah?” Pilate asked them. “Crucify him!” they all answered.

Jesus Calms a Storm

The Question about Jesus' Authority

The Question about Rising from Death

²³ But Pilate asked, “What crime has he committed?” Then they started shouting at the top of their voices: “Crucify him!”

The Parable of the Weeds

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am not responsible for the death of this man! This is your doing!”

Come to Me and Rest

(Luke 10.21, 22)

²⁵ The whole crowd answered, “Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!”

Whom to Fear

The Lord's Supper

(Mark 14.22-26; Luke 22.14-20; 1 Corinthians 11.23-25)

²⁶ Then Pilate set Barabbas free for them; and after he had Jesus whipped, he handed him over to be crucified.

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus

²⁷ Then Pilate's soldiers took Jesus into the governor's palace, and the whole company gathered around him.

Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons

The Parable of the Two Sons

²⁸ They stripped off his clothes and put a scarlet robe on him.

Jesus Heals Many People

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁹ Then they made a crown out of thorny branches and placed it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand; then they knelt before him and made fun of him. “Long live the King of the Jews!” they said. ³⁰ They spat on him, and took the stick and hit him over the head.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

The Final Judgment

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³¹ When they had finished making fun of him, they took the robe off and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

Jesus Heals a Man Who Could Not Speak

Confessing and Rejecting Christ

(Luke 12.8, 9)

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand

The Lesson of the Fig Tree

Jesus Is Crucified

³² As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene named Simon, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus' cross.

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Parable of the Yeast

(Luke 13.20, 21)

The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard

³³ They came to a place called Golgotha, which means, “The Place of the Skull.”

Not Peace, but a Sword

(Luke 12.51-53; 14.26, 27)

Jesus' Use of Parables

(Mark 4.33, 34)

Jesus Heals the Sick in Gennesaret

The Great Commandment

³⁴ There they offered Jesus wine mixed with a bitter substance; but after tasting it, he would not drink it.

Jesus Has Pity for the People

³⁵ They crucified him and then divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Weeds

No One Knows the Day and Hour

Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

³⁶ After that they sat there and watched him.

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem

(Luke 13.34, 35)

³⁷ Above his head they put the written notice of the accusation against him: “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.”

The Demand for a Miracle

³⁸ Then they crucified two bandits with Jesus, one on his right and the other on his left. ³⁹ People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus:

Rewards

⁴⁰ “You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days! Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on down from the cross!”

The Question about the Messiah

⁴¹ In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and the elders made fun of him: ⁴² “He saved others, but he cannot save himself Isn't he the king of Israel? If he will come down off the cross now, we will believe in him!

The Return of the Evil Spirit

⁴³ He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!”

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ Even the bandits who had been crucified with him insulted him in the same way.

The Parable of the Pearl

The Faithful or the Unfaithful Servant

The Death of Jesus

⁴⁵ At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶ At about three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”which means, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”

The Parable of the Net

The Arrest of Jesus