News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them.

“Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.”

A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”

Jesus Predicts His Death

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”

“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.

While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.”

She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.

Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Jesus Predicts His Death

He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.

Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?

Jesus Heals Many

Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.

And he said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”

Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?

There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body.

But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”

He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

“Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”