Mark 16(ESV) The Resurrection When the Sabbath was past,Mary Magdalene,Mary the mother of James, andSalomebought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.2And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.3And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll awaythe stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?"4And looking up,...

Mark 15(ESV) 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 things.4An...

Mark 14(ESV) 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 the leper,[...

Mark 13(ESV) 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 3And as he ...

Mark 12(ESV) 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 him and bea...

Mark 11(ESV) The Triumphal Entry Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, toBethphage and Bethany, atthe Mount of Olives, Jesusa]"[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 this?' s...

Mark 10(ESV) 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 man to wr...

Mark 9(ESV) 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 radiant,...

Mark 8(ESV) 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 of them h...

Mark 7(ESV) 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]holding tothe tradition ofthe elders,4and when they come from ...