Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,

Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.

Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,

A Question About Fasting

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,

Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late.

Traditions and Commandments

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,

Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.

The Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod

Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

The Triumphal Entry

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples

For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.

The Plot to Kill Jesus

It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him,

Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.”

Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none.

Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified

Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.

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

[Some of the earliest manuscripts do not include 16:9–20.]

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.