The Good News According to Markos
1:1The beginning of the Good News of Yeshua the Messiah, the Son
of G-d. 1:2As it is written in the prophets,
"Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
Who will prepare your way before you.
1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
'Make ready the way of the Lord!
Make his paths straight!'"
1:4Yochanan came immersing in the wilderness and preaching the
immersion of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
1:5All
the country of Yehudah and all those of Yerushalayim went out to him.
They were immersed by him in the Yarden river, confessing their sins.
1:6Yochanan was clothed with camel's hair and a leather belt
around his loins. He ate locusts and wild honey.
1:7He
preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong
of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
1:8I immersed you in water, but he will immerse you in the Holy
Spirit."
1:9It happened in those days, that Yeshua came from Natzeret of
the Galil, and was immersed by Yochanan in the Yarden.
1:10Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens
parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
1:11A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I
am well pleased."
1:12Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
1:13He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Hasatan.
He was with the wild animals; and the angels were ministering to him.
1:14Now after Yochanan was taken into custody, Yeshua came into the
Galil, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of G-d,
1:15and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and
the Kingdom of G-d is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News."
1:16Passing along by the sea of the Galil, he saw Shim`on and
Andrai the brother of Shim`on casting a net in the sea, for they were
fishermen.
1:17Yeshua said to them,
"Come after me, and I will make you into fishers
for men."
1:18Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
1:19Going on a little further from there, he saw Ya`akov the son of
Zavdai, and Yochanan, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the
nets. 1:20Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zavdai,
in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
1:21They went into Kafar-Nachum, and immediately on the day of
Shabbat he entered into the synagogue and taught.
1:22They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as
having authority, and not as the scribes.
1:23Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean
spirit, and he cried out, 1:24saying, "Ha!
What do we have to do with you, Yeshua, you Natzri? Have you come to
destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of G-d!"
1:25Yeshua rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet,
and come out of him!"
1:26The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud
voice, came out of him. 1:27They were all
amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this?
A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits,
and they obey him!" 1:28The report of
him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of the Galil and
its surrounding area.
1:29Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came
into the house of Shim`on and Andrai, with Ya`akov and Yochanan.
1:30Now Shim`on's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and
immediately they told him about her.
1:31He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever
left her, and she served them. 1:32At evening,
when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those
who were possessed by demons. 1:33All the city
was gathered together at the door.
1:34He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast
out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew
him.
1:35Early in the night, he rose up and went out, and departed into
a deserted place, and prayed there.
1:36Shim`on and those who were with him followed after him;
1:37and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for
you."
1:38He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into
the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this reason I
came forth." 1:39He went into
their synagogues throughout all Galil, preaching and casting out demons.
1:40There came to him a leper, begging him, kneeling down to him,
and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."
1:41Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and
touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made
clean."
1:42When he had said this,
immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.
1:43He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,
1:44and said to him, "See you say nothing to
anybody, but go show yourself to the kohen, and offer
for your cleansing the things which Moshe commanded, for a testimony to
them."
1:45But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread
about the matter, so that Yeshua could no more openly enter into a city,
but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.
2:1When he entered again into Kafar-Nachum after some days, it was
heard that he was in the house. 2:2Immediately many
were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around
the door; and he spoke the word to them.
2:3Four
people came, carrying a paralytic to him.
2:4When
they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof
where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the
paralytic was lying on. 2:5Yeshua, seeing
their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your
sins are forgiven you."
2:6But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning
in their hearts,
2:7"Why does this man speak
blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but G-d alone?"
2:8Immediately Yeshua, perceiving in his spirit that they so
reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
2:9Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your
sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
2:10But that you may know that the Son of Man has
authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to
the paralytic--2:11"I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to
your house."
2:12He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in
front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified G-d,
saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
2:13He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to
him, and he taught them. 2:14As he passed
by, he saw Levi, the son of Chalfai, sitting at the tax office, and he
said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and
followed him.
2:15It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house,
and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Yeshua and his
talmidim, for there were many, and they followed him.
2:16The scribes and the Perushim, when they saw that he was eating
with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his talmidim,
"Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
2:17When Yeshua heard it, he said to them,
"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are
sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
2:18Yochanan's talmidim and the Perushim were
fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do Yochanan's
talmidim and the talmidim of the Perushim fast,
but your talmidim don't fast?"
2:19Yeshua said to them, "Can
the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they
have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.
2:20But the days will come when the bridegroom will
be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.
2:21No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old
garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old,
and a worse hole is made. 2:22No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new
wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be
destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
2:23It happened that he was going on the day of Shabbat through the
grain fields, and his talmidim began, as they went, to
pluck the ears of grain. 2:24The Perushim
said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the day
of Shabbat?"
2:25He said to them, "Did you
never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and
they who were with him? 2:26How he entered into the house of G-d when Avyatar was
kohen gadol, and ate the show bread, which it is not
lawful to eat except for the kohanim, and gave also
to those who were with him?"
2:27He said to them, "The
Shabbat was made for man, not man for the Shabbat.
2:28Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the
Shabbat."
3:1He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there
who had his hand withered. 3:2They watched
him, whether he would heal him on the day of Shabbat, that they might
accuse him.
3:3He said to the man who had his hand
withered, "Stand up."
3:4He said to them, "Is it lawful on the day
of Shabbat to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?"
But they were silent. 3:5When he had
looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of
their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out
your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as
healthy as the other. 3:6The Perushim
went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how
they might destroy him.
3:7Yeshua withdrew to the sea with his talmidim,
and a great multitude followed him from the Galil, from Yehudah,
3:8from Yerushalayim, from Idumaea, beyond the Yarden, and those
from around Tzor and Tzidon. A great multitude, hearing what great
things he did, came to him. 3:9He spoke to his
talmidim that a little boat should stay near him
because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
3:10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed
on him that they might touch him.
3:11The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before
him, and cried, "You are the Son of G-d!"
3:12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
3:13He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom
he wanted, and they went to him. 3:14He appointed
twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to
preach, 3:15and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out
demons: 3:16Shim`on, to whom he gave the name Kefa;
3:17Ya`akov the son of Zavdai; Yochanan, the brother of Ya`akov,
and he surnamed them Benei-Regesh, which means, Sons of Thunder;
3:18Andrai; Philip; Bar-Talmai; Mattityahu; T'oma; Ya`akov, the son
of Chalfai; Taddi; Shim`on the Zealot;
3:19and Yehudah from K'riot, who also betrayed him.
He came into a house.
3:20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so
much as eat bread. 3:21When his
friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is
insane."
3:22The scribes who came down from
Yerushalayim said, "He has Ba`al-Zibbul," and, "By the prince of the
demons he casts out the demons."
3:23He summoned them, and said to them in parables,
"How can Hasatan cast out Hasatan?
3:24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that
kingdom cannot stand. 3:25If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
3:26If Hasatan has risen up against himself, and is
divided, he can't stand, but has an end.
3:27But no one can enter into the house of the
strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he
will plunder his house. 3:28Most assuredly I tell you, all of the children of men's sins
will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may
blaspheme;
3:29but whoever may
blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty
of an eternal sin"
3:30-- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."
3:31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they
sent to him, calling him. 3:32A multitude was
sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your
brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."
3:33He answered them, "Who are my mother and
my brothers?" 3:34Looking around
at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
3:35For whoever does the will of G-d, the same is
my brother, and my sister, and mother."
4:1Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was
gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat
down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
4:2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his
teaching, 4:3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
4:4and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by
the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
4:5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had
little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of
soil. 4:6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and
because it had no root, it withered away.
4:7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns
grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
4:8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded
fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some
sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."4:9He
said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
4:10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve
asked him about the parables. 4:11He said to
them, "To you is given the mystery
of the Kingdom of G-d, but to those who are outside, all things are done
in parables,
4:12that 'seeing
they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not
understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should
be forgiven them.'"
4:13He said to them, "Don't
you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the
parables?
4:14The farmer sows the
word. 4:15These are the ones by the road, where the word
is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Hasatan comes, and takes
away the word which has been sown in them.
4:16These in like manner are those who are sown on
the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately
receive it with joy. 4:17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When
oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they
stumble.
4:18Others are those who
are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
4:19and 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.
4:20These are those which were sown on the good
ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some
thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
4:21He said to them, "Is the
lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a
menorah?
4:22For there is nothing
hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made
secret, but that it should come to light.
4:23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
4:24He 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.
4:25For whoever has, to him will more be given, and
he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he
has."
4:26He said, "The Kingdom of
G-d is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
4:27and should sleep and rise night and day, and
the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.
4:28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade,
then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
4:29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts
forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
4:30He said, "How will we
liken the Kingdom of G-d? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
4:31It'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,
4:32yet 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."
4:33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were
able to hear it.
4:34Without a parable he didn't
speak to them; but privately to his own talmidim he
explained all things.
4:35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them,
"Let's go over to the other side."
4:36Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was,
in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
4:37There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the
boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
4:38He 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?"
4:39He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
"Shalom! Be still!" The wind ceased, and
there was a great calm. 4:40He said to
them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you
have no faith?"
4:41They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is
this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
5:1They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the
Gadara. 5:2When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out
of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
5:3who
had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even
with chains,
5:4because he had been often bound with
fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the
fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
5:5Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he
was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
5:6When
he saw Yeshua from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
5:7and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do
with you, Yeshua, you Son of Ha`Elyon G-d? I adjure
you by G-d, don't torment me." 5:8For he said to
him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
5:9He asked him, "What is your name?"
He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
5:10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the
country.
5:11Now there was on the mountainside a
great herd of pigs feeding. 5:12All the demons
begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into
them."
5:13At once Yeshua gave them permission. The unclean spirits came
out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed
down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
5:14Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the
country.
The people came to see what it was that had happened.
5:15They came to Yeshua, and saw him who had been possessed by
demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the
legion; and they were afraid. 5:16Those who saw
it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons,
and about the pigs. 5:17They began to
beg him to depart from their region.
5:18As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by
demons begged him that he might be with him.
5:19He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go
to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord
has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."
5:20He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Yeshua
had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.
5:21When Yeshua had crossed back over in the boat to the other
side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
5:22Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Ya'ir by name,
came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,
5:23and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the
point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be
made healthy, and live."
5:24He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they
pressed upon him on all sides. 5:25A certain
woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,
5:26and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent
all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
5:27having heard the things concerning Yeshua, came up behind him
in the crowd, and touched his clothes.
5:28For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made
well." 5:29Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in
her body that she was healed of her affliction.
5:30Immediately Yeshua, perceiving in himself that the power had
gone out from him, turned around in the crowd, and asked,
"Who touched my clothes?"
5:31His talmidim said to him, "You see the
multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
5:32He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
5:33But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been
done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
5:34He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has
made you well. Go in shalom, and be cured of your disease."
5:35While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue
ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any
more?"
5:36But Yeshua, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said
to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid,
only believe." 5:37He allowed no
one to follow him, except Kefa, Ya`akov, and Yochanan the brother of
Ya`akov.
5:38He came to the synagogue ruler's
house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.
5:39When he had entered in, he said to them,
"Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is
asleep."
5:40They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the
father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went
in where the child was lying. 5:41Taking the
child by the hand, he said to her, "Talita, kumi;"
which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you,
get up."
5:42Immediately the girl rose up,
and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great
amazement.
5:43He strictly ordered them that no one
should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to
eat.
6:1He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his
talmidim followed him.
6:2When
the Shabbat had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many
hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these
things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such
mighty works come about by his hands?
6:3Isn't
this the carpenter, the son of Miryam, and brother of Ya`akov, Yosi,
Yehudah, and Shim`on? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were
offended at him.
6:4Yeshua said to them, "A prophet is not
without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives,
and in his own house." 6:5He could do no
mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people,
and healed them.
6:6He marveled because of their
unbelief.
He went around the villages teaching.
6:7He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two
by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
6:8He charged them that they should take nothing for their
journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their
purse, 6:9but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
6:10He said to them,
"Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from
there. 6:11Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as
you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a
testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable
for Sedom and `Amorah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
6:12They went out and preached that people should repent.
6:13They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were
sick, and healed them. 6:14King Herod
heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "Yochanan the
immerser has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work
in him."
6:15But others said, "It is Eliyah."
Others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets."
6:16But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is Yochanan, whom I
beheaded. He has risen from the dead."
6:17For Herod himself had sent out and arrested Yochanan, and bound
him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for
he had married her. 6:18For Yochanan
said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."
6:19Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but
she couldn't,
6:20for Herod feared Yochanan,
knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he
heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
6:21Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a
supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of the Galil.
6:22When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she
pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young
lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."
6:23He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give
you, up to half of my kingdom."
6:24She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?"
She said, "The head of Yochanan the immerser."
6:25She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I
want you to give me right now the head of Yochanan the immerser on a
platter."
6:26The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths,
and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
6:27Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and
commanded to bring Yochanan's head, and he went and beheaded him in the
prison, 6:28and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young
lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
6:29When his talmidim heard this, they came and
took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
6:30The emissaries gathered themselves together to Yeshua, and they
told him all things, whatever they had done, and whatever they had
taught. 6:31He said to them, "You come apart into a
deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and
going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
6:32They went away in the boat to a desert place by themselves.
6:33They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on
foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to
him. 6:34Yeshua came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion
on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began
to teach them many things. 6:35When it was
late in the day, his talmidim came to him, and said,
"This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
6:36Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country
and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."
6:37But he answered them, "You give them
something to eat."
They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii
worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
6:38He said to them, "How many loaves do you
have? Go see."
When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
6:39He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on
the green grass.
6:40They sat down in ranks, by
hundreds and by fifties. 6:41He took the
five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and
broke the loaves, and he gave to his talmidim to set
before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
6:42They all ate, and were filled.
6:43They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of
the fish.
6:44Those who ate the loaves were five
thousand men.
6:45Immediately he made his talmidim get into
the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Beit-Tzaidah, while he
himself sent the multitude away. 6:46After he had
taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
6:47When evening had come, the boat was in the midst of the sea,
and he was alone on the land. 6:48Seeing them
distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the
fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he
would have passed by them, 6:49but they, when
they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried
out; 6:50for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately
spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It
is I! Don't be afraid." 6:51He got into the
boat with them; and the wind ceased, and they were very amazed among
themselves, and marveled; 6:52for they hadn't
understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
6:53When they had crossed over, they came to land at Ginosar, and
moored to the shore. 6:54When they had
come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,
6:55and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who
were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.
6:56Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the
country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that
they might touch just the tzitzit of his garment; and
as many as touched him were made well.
7:1Then the Perushim, and some of the scribes gathered together to
him, having come from Yerushalayim.
7:2Now
when they saw some of his talmidim eating bread with
defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
7:3(For the Perushim, and all the Yehudim, don't eat unless they
wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
7:4They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they
bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have
received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and
couches.) 7:5The Perushim and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your
talmidim walk according to the tradition of the
elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
7:6He answered them,
"Well did Yesha`yahu prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
'This people honors me with their lips,
But their heart is far from me.
7:7But in vain do they worship me,
Teaching as doctrines the mitzvot of men.'
7:8"For you set aside the mitzvah
of G-d, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of
pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." 7:9He said to them, "Full
well do you reject the mitzvah of G-d, that you may
keep your tradition. 7:10For Moshe said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He
who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
7:11But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his
mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that
is to say, given to G-d;"' 7:12then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or
his mother,
7:13making void the word
of G-d by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things
like this."
7:14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them,
"Hear me, all of you, and
understand.
7:15There is nothing
from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the
things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
7:16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
7:17When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his
talmidim asked him about the parable.
7:18He said to them, "Are you
thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes
into the man from outside can't defile him,
7:19because it doesn't go into his heart, but into
his stomach, then into the latrine, thus making all foods clean?"
7:20He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the
man. 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires,
an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
7:23All these evil things come from within, and
defile the man."
7:24From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tzor and
Tzidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but
he couldn't escape notice. 7:25For a woman,
whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came
and fell down at his feet. 7:26Now the woman
was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. She begged him that he would cast
the demon out of her daughter. 7:27But Yeshua said
to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it
is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the
dogs."
7:28But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the
table eat the children's crumbs."
7:29He said to her, "For this saying, go your
way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
7:30She went away to her house, and found the child having been
laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.
7:31Again he departed from the borders of Tzor and Tzidon, and came
to the sea of the Galil, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.
7:32They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in
his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
7:33He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his
fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
7:34Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him,
"Hippatach!" that is,
"Be opened!" 7:35Immediately his
ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he
spoke clearly.
7:36He commanded them that they
should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more
widely they proclaimed it. 7:37They were
astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He
makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"
8:1In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they
had nothing to eat, Yeshua called his talmidim to
himself, and said to them, 8:2"I
have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now
three days, and have nothing to eat.
8:3If I send them away fasting to their home, they will
faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way."
8:4His talmidim answered him, "From where could
one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
8:5He asked them, "How many loaves do you
have?"
They said, "Seven."
8:6He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he
took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them
to his talmidim to serve, and they served the
multitude.
8:7They had a few small fish. Having
blessed them, he said to serve these also.
8:8They
ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that
were left over.
8:9Those who had eaten were about
four thousand. Then he sent them away.
8:10Immediately he entered into the boat with his
talmidim, and came into the region of Dalmanuta.
8:11The Perushim came out and began to question him, seeking from
him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
8:12He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said,
"Why does this generation seek a sign? Most assuredly I tell you, no
sign will be given to this generation."
8:13He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the
other side.
8:14They forgot to take bread; and they
didn't have more than one loaf in the boat with them.
8:15He charged them, saying, "Take heed:
beware of the yeast of the Perushim and the yeast of Herod."
8:16They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have
no bread."
8:17Yeshua, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread?
Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still
hardened?
8:18Having eyes, don't
you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
8:19When I broke the five loaves among the five
thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"
They told him, "Twelve."
8:20"When the seven loaves fed the four thousand,
how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?"
They told him, "Seven."
8:21He asked them, "Don't you understand,
yet?"
8:22He came to Beit-Tzaidah. They brought a blind man to him, and
begged him to touch him. 8:23He took hold of
the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he
had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw
anything.
8:24He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees
walking."
8:25Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently,
and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.
8:26He sent him away to his house, saying,
"Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."
8:27Yeshua went out, with his talmidim, into the
villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his
talmidim, "Who do men say that I am?"
8:28They told him, "Yochanan the immerser, and others say Eliyah,
but others: one of the prophets."
8:29He said to them, "But who do you say that
I am?"
Kefa answered, "You are the Messiah."
8:30He charged them that they should tell no one about him.
8:31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many
things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief kohanim,
and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
8:32He spoke to them openly. Kefa took him, and began to rebuke
him. 8:33But he, turning around, and seeing his talmidim,
rebuked Kefa, and said, "Get behind me, Hasatan!
For you have in mind not the things of G-d, but the things of men."
8:34He called the multitude to himself with his
talmidim, and said to them,
"Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
cross, and follow me. 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever
will lose his life for my sake and the Good News's will save it.
8:36For what does it profit a man, to gain the
whole world, and forfeit his life?
8:37For what will a man give in exchange for his
life? 8:38For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my
words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will
be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the
holy angels."
9:1He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell
you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until
they see the Kingdom of G-d come with power."
9:2After six days Yeshua took with him Kefa, Ya`akov, and
Yochanan, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by
themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
9:3His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow,
such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
9:4Eliyah
and Moshe appeared to them, and they were talking with Yeshua.
9:5Kefa answered Yeshua, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here.
Let's make three tents: one for you, one for Moshe, and one for Eliyah."
9:6For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
9:7A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the
cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
9:8Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more,
except Yeshua only.
9:9As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them
that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the
Son of Man had risen from the dead.
9:10They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the
"rising from the dead" meant.
9:11They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Eliyah
must come first?"
9:12He said to them, "Eliyah
indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the
Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
9:13But I tell you that Eliyah has come, and they
have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written
about him."
9:14Coming to the talmidim, he saw a great
multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
9:15Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly
amazed, and running to him greeted him.
9:16He asked the scribes, "What are you
asking them?"
9:17One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my
son, who has a mute spirit; 9:18and wherever it
seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds
his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your talmidim to
cast it out, and they weren't able."
9:19He answered him, "Unbelieving generation,
how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him
to me."
9:20They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the
spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming
at the mouth.
9:21He asked his father, "How long has it
been since this has come to him?"
He said, "From childhood.
9:22Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to
destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help
us."
9:23Yeshua said to him, "If you can believe,
all things are possible to him who believes."
9:24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I
believe. Help my unbelief!"
9:25When Yeshua saw that a multitude came running together, he
rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You
mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter
him again!"
9:26Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him.
The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is
dead." 9:27But Yeshua took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he
arose.
9:28When he had come into the house, his talmidim
asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
9:29He said to them, "This kind can come out
by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
9:30They went out from there, and passed through the Galil. He
didn't want anyone to know it. 9:31For he was
teaching his talmidim, and said to them,
"The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands
of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day
he will rise again."
9:32But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask
him.
9:33He came to Kafar-Nachum, and when he was in the house he asked
them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on
the way?"
9:34But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on
the way about who was the greatest.
9:35He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them,
"If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of
all, and servant of all." 9:36He took a
little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms,
he said to them,
9:37"Whoever
receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever
receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."
9:38Yochanan said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't
follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because
he doesn't follow us."
9:39But Yeshua said, "Don't
forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name,
and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
9:40For whoever is not against us is on our side.
9:41For whoever will give you a cup of water to
drink in my name, because you are Messiah's, most assuredly I tell you,
he will in no way lose his reward.
9:42Whoever will cause one of these little ones who
believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown
into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
9:43If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your
two hands to go into Gehinnom, into the unquenchable fire,
9:44'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is
not quenched.'
9:45If your foot
causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into
life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehinnom,
into the fire that will never be quenched--9:46'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is
not quenched.'
9:47If your eye
causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into
the Kingdom of G-d with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast
into the Gehinnom of fire, 9:48'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'
9:49For everyone will be salted with fire, and
every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
9:50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its
saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be
at shalom with one another."
10:1He arose from there and came into the borders of Yehudah and
beyond the Yarden. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually
did, he was again teaching them. 10:2Perushim came
to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce
his wife?"
10:3He answered, "What did Moshe command
you?"
10:4They said, "Moshe allowed a certificate of divorce to be
written, and to divorce her."
10:5But Yeshua said to them,
"For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this mitzvah.
10:6But from the beginning of the creation, 'God
made them male and female. 10:7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will
join to his wife, 10:8and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer
two, but one flesh. 10:9What therefore G-d has joined together, let no man
separate."
10:10In the house, his talmidim asked him again
about the same matter. 10:11He said to
them, "Whoever divorces his wife,
and marries another, commits adultery against her.
10:12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and
marries another, she commits adultery."
10:13They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch
them, but the talmidim rebuked those who were
bringing them.
10:14But when Yeshua saw it, he was
moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid
them, for the Kingdom of G-d belongs to such as these.
10:15Most assuredly I tell you, whoever will not
receive the Kingdom of G-d like a little child, he will in no way enter
into it." 10:16He took them
in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
10:17As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before
him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit
eternal life?"
10:18Yeshua said to him, "Why
do you call me good? No one is good except one-- G-d.
10:19You know the mitzvot: 'Do
not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give
false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"
10:20He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from
my youth."
10:21Yeshua looking at him loved him, and said to him,
"One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have,
and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come,
follow me, taking up the cross."
10:22But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful,
for he was one who had great possessions.
10:23Yeshua looked around, and said to his talmidim,
"How difficult it is for those who have riches to
enter into the Kingdom of G-d!"
10:24The talmidim were amazed at his words. But
Yeshua answered again, "Children,
how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom
of G-d!
10:25It is easier for a
camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the
Kingdom of G-d."
10:26They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can
be saved?"
10:27Yeshua, looking at them, said, "With men
it is impossible, but not with G-d, for all things are possible with
G-d."
10:28Kefa began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have
followed you."
10:29Yeshua said, "Most
assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers,
or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my
sake, and for the Good News's sake,
10:30but he will receive one hundred times more now
in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land,
with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
10:31But many who are first will be last; and the
last first."
10:32They were on the way, going up to Yerushalayim; and Yeshua was
going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed
were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things
that were going to happen to him.
10:33"Behold, we are going up to Yerushalayim. The
Son of Man will be delivered to the chief kohanim and
the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the
Goyim.
10:34They will mock him,
spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise
again."
10:35Ya`akov and Yochanan, the sons of Zavdai, came near to him,
saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
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