And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”

And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.

And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”

Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”

And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him.

And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”

And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized,

But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.

But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”

And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.