1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there,2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, "They don't have any wine."4 Jesus said to her,"How does that concern us, woman? My hour has not yet come."5 His mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."6 Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from twenty to thirty gallons.7 Jesus told the servants,"Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.8 Then he said to them,"Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they took it.9 When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

1 As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"3 Jesus answered,"Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so thatthe works of God might be revealed in him.4 Imust work the works of the one who sent mewhile it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."6 After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes7 and told him,"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off and washed and came back seeing.8 Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"9 Some were saying, "It is he," while others were saying, "No, but it is someone like him."He himself kept saying, "It is I!"10 So they said to him, "How, then, were your eyes opened?"11 He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me,‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."12 They said to him, "Where is that man?"He said, "I don't know!"

13 When Jesus heard this, he left that place and went by boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns.14 When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them and healed their sick.15 Now when evening came, the disciples went to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."16 But Jesus said to them,"They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat."17 They told him, "We don't have anything here except five loaves of bread and two fish."18 He said,"Bring them here to me."19 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.20 All of them ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up what was left of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.21 Now those who had eaten were about 5,000 men, besides women and children.

35 That day, when evening had come, he said to them,"Let's cross to the other side."36 So they left the crowd and took him along in the boat just as he was. Other boats were with him.37 A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.38 But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"39 Then he got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,"Hush! Be still!" Then the wind stopped blowing, and there was a great calm.40 He said to them,"Why are you such cowards? Don't you have any faith yet?"41 They were overcome with fear and kept saying to one another, "Who is this man? Even the wind and the sea obey him!"

25 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years.26 Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all but rather grew worse.27 Since she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe.28 For she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get well."29 Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.30 Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked,"Who touched my clothes?"31 His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask,‘Who touched me?’"32 But he kept looking around to see the woman who had done this.33 So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.34 He said to her,"Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."

1 They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.2 Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.3 He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.4 He had often been restrained with shackles and chains but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him.5 Night and day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the mountainsides and kept cutting himself with stones.6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell down in front of him,7 screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I command you in the name of God not to torture me!"8 For Jesus had been saying to him,"Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"9 Then Jesus asked him,"What's your name?"He said to him, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us."10 He kept pleading with Jesus not to send them out of the territory.11 Now a large herd of pigs was grazing on a hillside nearby.12 So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"13 So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down the cliff into the sea and drowned there.14 Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.15 When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.16 The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs.17 So they began to beg Jesus to leave their territory.18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.19 But Jesus wouldn't let him. Instead, he told him,"Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you."20 So the man left and began proclaiming in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was utterly amazed.

21 When Jesus again had crossed to the other side in a boat, a large crowd gathered around him by the seashore.22 Then a synagogue leader named Jairus arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet23 and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."24 So Jesus went with him. A huge crowd kept following him and jostling him.25 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years.26 Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all but rather grew worse.27 Since she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe.28 For she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get well."29 Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.30 Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked,"Who touched my clothes?"31 His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask,‘Who touched me?’"32 But he kept looking around to see the woman who had done this.33 So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.34 He said to her,"Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."35 While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"36 But when Jesus heard what they said, he told the synagogue leader,"Stop being afraid! Just keep on believing."37 Jesus allowed no one to go further with him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.39 He entered the house and said to them,"Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead but is sleeping."40 They laughed and laughed at him. But he forced all of them outside. Then he took the child's father and mother, along with the men who were with him, and went into the room where the child was.41 He took her by the hand and said to her,"Talitha koum," which means,"Little girl, I tell you, get up!"42 The little girl got up at once and started to walk, for she was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.43 But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.

22 Jesus immediately had the disciples get into a boat and cross to the other side ahead of him, while he sent the crowds away.23 After dismissing the crowds, he went up on a hillside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.24 By this time the boat was in the middle of the sea and was being battered by the waves, for the wind was against them.25 Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea.26 When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, "It's a ghost!" And they screamed in terror.27 Immediately Jesus said to them,"Have courage! It is I. Stop being afraid!"28 Peter answered him, "Lord, if it's you, order me to come to you on the water."29 Jesus said,"Come on!" So Peter got down out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came to Jesus.30 But when he noticed the strong wind, he was frightened. As he began to sink, he shouted, "Lord, save me!"31 At once Jesus reached out his hand, caught him, and said to him,"You who have so little faith, why did you doubt?"32 As they got into the boat, the wind stopped blowing.33 Then the men in the boat began to worship Jesus, saying, "You certainly are the Son of God!"

1 Several days later Jesus returned to Capernaum, and it was reported that he was at home.2 So many crowds had gathered that there wasn't any room left for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking the word to them3 when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men.4 Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the cot on which the paralyzed man was lying.5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man,"Son, your sins are forgiven."6 Now some scribes were sitting there, arguing among themselves,7 "Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"8 At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. He said to them,"Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?9 Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your cot, and walk’?10 But I want you to knowthat the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins."Then he said to the paralyzed man,11 "I say to you, get up, pick up your cot, and go home!"12 So the man got up, immediately picked up his cot, and went out before all of them.As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.2 Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, saying, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."4 But when Jesus heard it, he said,"This illness is not meant to end in death. It is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.6 Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two days.7 After this he said to the disciples,"Let's go back to Judea."8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"9 Jesus replied,"There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.10 But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."11 These were the things he said. Then after this he told them,"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am leaving to wake him up."12 So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.14 Then Jesus told them plainly,"Lazarus has died.15 For your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."16 Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away,19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.20 As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.21 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.22 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give it to you."23 Jesus told her,"Your brother will rise again."24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."25 Jesus said to her,"I am the resurrection and the life.The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.26 Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?"27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."28 When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"29 As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.30 Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.31 When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.32 As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."33 When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.34 He said,"Where have you put him?"They said to him, "Lord, come and see."35 Jesus burst into tears.36 So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"37 But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"38 Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said,"Remove the stone."Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."40 Jesus said to her,"I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"41 So they removed the stone.Then Jesus looked upward and said,"Father, I thank you for hearing me.42 I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."43 After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice,"Lazarus, come out!"44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them,"Untie him, and let him go."