Archives for February 2023

Mark 14 The Plot to Kill Jesus It was now two days beforethe Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribeswere seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him,2for they said, "Not during the feast,lest there be an uproar from the people." Jesus Anointed at Bethany 3And while he was atBethany in the house of Simon th...

Mark 13 Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!"2And Jesus said to him,"Do you see these great buildings?There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." Signs of the End of the Age 3A...

Mark 12 The Parable of the Tenants And he began to speak to them in parables."A man planteda vineyardand put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, andleased it to tenants andwent into another country.2When the season came, he sent a servant[a]to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.3And they took hi...

Mark 11 The Triumphal Entry Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, toBethphage and Bethany, atthe Mount of Olives, Jesus[a]senttwo of his disciples2and said to them,"Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied,on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.3If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing th...

Mark 10 Teaching About Divorce And he left there and wentto the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. 2And Pharisees came up and in orderto test him asked,"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"3He answered them,"What did Moses command you?"4They said,"Moses allowed a ...

Mark 9 And he said to them,"Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will nottaste deathuntil they see the kingdom of God after it has comewith power." The Transfiguration 2And after six days Jesus took with himPeter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he wastransfigured before them,3andhis clothes became r...

Mark 8 Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,2"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.3And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some ...

Mark 7 Traditions and Commandments Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribeswho had come from Jerusalem,2they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that weredefiled, that is, unwashed.3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly,a]"[a]holding tothe tradition ofthe elders,4and when the...

Mark 6 Jesus Rejected at Nazareth He went away from there and came tohis hometown, and his disciples followed him.2Andon the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, andmany who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?3Is not thisthe carpenter,...

Mark 5 Jesus Heals a Man with a Demon They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.[a]2And when Jesus[b]had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.3He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,4for he had often been bound with shackle...

Mark 15 Jesus Delivered to Pilate And as soon as it was morning, the chief priestsheld a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. Andthey bound Jesus andled him away anddelivered him over toPilate.2And Pilate asked him,"Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him,"You have said so."3And the chief priests accused him of many t...

Mark 4 The Parable of the Sower Againhe began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him,so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.2Andhe was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:3"Listen! Behold,a sower went out to sow.4And as he so...

Mark 3 A Man with a Withered Hand Againhe entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.2Andthey watched Jesus,[a]to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.3And he said to the man with the withered hand,"Come here."4And he said to them,"Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save lif...

Mark 2 Jesus Heals a Paralytic And when he returned toCapernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.2And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.3And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.4And when they could not get near him because of t...

Mark 1 English Standard Version John the Baptist Prepares the Way The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,the Son of God.[a] 2As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,[b] "Behold, I send my messenger before your face,who will prepare your way,3the voice of one crying in the wilderness:'Prepare[c]the way of the Lord,make his paths straig...

Matthew 28 The Resurrection Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene andthe other Mary went to see the tomb.2And behold, there was a great earthquake, foran angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.3His appearance was like lightning, andhis clothing white as snow.4A...

Matthew 27 Jesus Delivered to Pilate When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the peopletook counsel against Jesus to put him to death.2And they bound him andled him away anddelivered him over toPilate the governor. Judas Hangs Himself 3Then whenJudas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus[a]was condemned,he changed his mind and brought backthe...

Matthew 26 The Plot to Kill Jesus When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,2"You know that after two daysthe Passover is coming, andthe Son of Manwill be delivered up to be crucified." 3Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered inthe palace of the high priest, whose name wasCaiaphas,4and plotted together in o...

Matthew 25 The Parable of the Ten Virgins "Then the kingdom of heaven will be liketen virgins who took their lampsa]"[a]and went to meetthe bridegroom.b]"[b]2Five of them were foolish, and five werewise.3For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.5As the bridegroomwas delayed, they a...

Matthew 24 Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.2But he answered them,"You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you,there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." Signs of the End of the Age 3As ...

Matthew 23 Seven Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees Then Jesussaid to the crowds and to his disciples,2"The scribes and the Phariseessit on Moses' seat,3so do and observe whatever they tell you,but not the works they do.For they preach, but do not practice.4They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,[a]and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves a...