From that time, JESUS began to preach, and to say,"Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."

Now after John was taken into custody, JESUS came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God's Kingdom,

1. Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound JESUS, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

2. Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"He answered,"So you say."

3. The chief priests accused him of many things.

4. Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"

5. But JESUS made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

6. Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

7. There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.

8. The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

9. Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

10. For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

11. But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

12. Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

13. They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

14. Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?"But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

15. Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over JESUS, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

16. The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

17. They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

18. They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

19. They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

20. When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

21. They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.

22. They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull."

23. They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn't take it.

24. Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

25. It was the third hour, and they crucified him.

26. The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."

27. With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

28. The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was counted with transgressors."

29. Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

30. save yourself, and come down from the cross!"

31. Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.

32. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

33. When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34. At the ninth hour JESUS cried with a loud voice, saying,"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted,"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"Psalm 22:1

35. Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."

36. One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."

37. JESUS cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

38. The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

39. When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

40. There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

41. who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

42. When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

43. Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God's Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for JESUS' body.

44. Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

45. When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

46. He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

47. Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.

14. The farmer sows the word.

15. The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

16. These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

17. They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

18. Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

19. and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

20. Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

21. He said to them,"Is the lamp brought to be put under a basketor under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand?

22. For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

23. If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

24. He said to them,"Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

25. For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

26. He said,"God's Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

27. and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

28. For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

29. But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

30. He said,"How will we liken God's Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

31. It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

32. yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

33. With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

34. Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

35. On that day, when evening had come, he said to them,"Let's go over to the other side."

36. Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

37. A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

38. He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

39. He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,"Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

40. He said to them,"Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"

41. They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"