1 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power."

2 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them. 3 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. 4 Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.

5 Peter answered Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." 6 For he didn’t know what to say, for they were very afraid.

7 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

8 Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.

9 As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. 10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.

11 They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

12 He said to them, "Elijah 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? 13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."

14 Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them. 15 Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him. 16 He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"

17 One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit; 18 and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able."

19 He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."

20 They 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.

21 He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has been happening to him?"

He said, "From childhood. 22 Often 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."

23 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

24 Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"

25 When Jesus 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!"

26 After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, "He is dead." 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up; and he arose.

28 When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn’t we cast it out?"

29 He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting."

30 They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, 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."

32 But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

33 He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"

34 But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.

35 He 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." 36 He took a little child and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 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."

38 John 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."

39 But Jesus 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. 40 For whoever is not against us is on our side. 41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

42 "Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. 43 If 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 Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, 44 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ 45 If 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 Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched— 46 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ 47 If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, 48 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ 49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

1 En Hy sê vir hulle: Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, daar is sommige van die wat hier staan, wat die dood sekerlik nie sal smaak voordat hulle die koninkryk van God met krag sien kom het nie.

2 En n ses dae het Jesus vir Petrus en Jakobus en Johannes saamgeneem en hulle alleen op 'n hoë berg in die eensaamheid geneem; en Hy het voor hulle van gedaante verander,

3 en sy klere het blink geword, baie wit soos sneeu, wit soos geen bleiker op aarde dit kan maak nie.

4 En daar het aan hulle verskyn El¡a saam met Moses, en hulle was in gesprek met Jesus.

5 Toe spreek Petrus en sê vir Jesus: Rabbi, dit is goed dat ons hier is. Laat ons dan drie hutte maak: vir U een en vir Moses een en vir El¡a een.

6 Want hy het nie geweet wat om te sê nie, want hulle was heeltemal verskrik.

7 En daar kom 'n wolk wat hulle oordek; en uit die wolk kom 'n stem wat sê: Dit is my geliefde Seun, luister na Hom!

8 En meteens kyk hulle rond en sien niemand meer by hulle nie, behalwe Jesus alleen.

9 En onderwyl hulle van die berg afklim, gee Hy aan hulle bevel om aan niemand te vertel wat hulle gesien het voordat die Seun van die mens uit die dode opgestaan het nie.

10 En hulle het die woord vir hulleself gehou en onder mekaar gevra wat dit beteken om uit die dode op te staan.

11 En hulle vra Hom en sê: Waarom sê die skrifgeleerdes dat El¡a eers moet kom?

12 Toe antwoord Hy en sê vir hulle: Dis waar, El¡a kom eers om alles te herstel; en tog, hoe staan daar dan van die Seun van die mens geskrywe dat Hy baie moet ly en verag word?

13 Maar Ek sê vir julle dat El¡a al gekom het, en hulle het aan hom gedoen alles wat hulle wou, soos van hom geskrywe is.

14 En toe Hy by die dissipels kom, sien Hy 'n groot menigte om hulle, en skrifgeleerdes wat met hulle redetwis.

15 En dadelik toe die hele skare Hom sien, was hulle baie verbaas en het na Hom gehardloop en Hom gegroet.

16 Daarop vra Hy die skrifgeleerdes: Waarom redetwis julle met hulle?

17 En een uit die skare antwoord en sê: Meester, ek het my seun wat 'n stomme gees het, na U gebring;

18 en waar hy hom ook aangryp, skeur hy hom; en hy kry skuim in die mond, en hy kners met sy tande en word styf; en ek het u dissipels gevra om hom uit te dryf, en hulle kon nie.

19 Toe antwoord Hy hom en sê: o Ongelowige geslag, hoe lank sal Ek by julle wees, hoe lank sal Ek julle verdra? Bring hom na My toe.

20 En hulle bring hom na Hom toe; en toe hy Hom sien, laat die gees hom dadelik stuiptrekkings kry, en hy val op die grond neer en rol rond met skuim in die mond.

21 Daarop vra Hy sy vader: Hoe lank is dit al dat dit hom oorgekom het? En hy sê: Van sy kindsdae af;

22 en dikwels het hy hom selfs in die vuur en in die water gegooi om hom dood te maak. Maar as U iets kan doen, ontferm U oor ons en help ons.

23 En Jesus sê vir hom: Wat dit betref -- as jy kan glo, alle dinge is moontlik vir die een wat glo.

24 En dadelik roep die vader van die kind met trane uit en sê: Ek glo, Here, kom my ongeloof te hulp!

25 En toe Jesus sien dat 'n skare bymekaar stroom, het Hy die onreine gees bestraf en vir hom gesê: Jou stom en dowe gees, Ek gebied jou, gaan uit hom uit en kom nooit weer in hom nie.

26 En nadat hy geskreeu en hom baie stuiptrekkings laat kry het, het hy uitgegaan. En die seun het soos 'n dooie geword, sodat baie gesê het: Hy is dood.

27 Maar Jesus het hom by die hand gegryp en hom opgerig; en hy het opgestaan.

28 En toe Hy in die huis kom, vra sy dissipels Hom afsonderlik: Waarom kon ons hom nie uitdrywe nie?

29 En Hy sê vir hulle: Hierdie geslag kan deur niks anders uitgaan as deur gebed en vas nie.

30 En hulle het daarvandaan weggegaan en verbygetrek deur Galil,a; en Hy wou nie hê dat iemand dit moes weet nie.

31 Want Hy het sy dissipels geleer en vir hulle gesê: Die seun van die mens word oorgelewer in die hande van die mense, en hulle sal Hom doodmaak; en nadat Hy gedood is, sal Hy die derde dag opstaan.

32 En hulle het die gesegde nie verstaan nie en was bang om Hom uit te vra.

33 En Hy het in Kap,rnam gekom; en toe Hy in die huis was, vra Hy hulle: Wat het julle op die pad met mekaar geredeneer?

34 Maar hulle het stilgebly; want hulle het op die pad met mekaar gepraat oor wie die grootste is.

35 En toe Hy gaan sit het, roep Hy die twaalf en sê vir hulle: As iemand die eerste wil wees, moet hy die laaste van almal en almal se dienaar wees.

36 En Hy neem 'n kindjie en laat hom in hul midde staan en slaan sy arms om hom en sê vir hulle:

37 Elkeen wat een van sulke kindertjies ontvang in my Naam, ontvang My. En elkeen wat My ontvang, ontvang nie My nie, maar Hom wat My gestuur het.

38 Toe antwoord Johannes Hom en sê: Meester, ons het iemand gesien wat in u Naam duiwels uitdryf en wat ons nie volg nie; en ons het hom belet, omdat hy ons nie volg nie.

39 Maar Jesus sê: Moet hom nie belet nie, want daar is niemand wat 'n krag in my Naam sal doen en gou van My sal kan kwaadspreek nie;

40 want wie nie teen ons is nie, is vir ons.

41 Want elkeen wat vir julle in my Naam 'n beker water gee om te drink, omdat julle aan Christus behoort, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, hy sal sy loon sekerlik nie verloor nie.

42 En elkeen wat een van hierdie kleintjies wat in My glo, laat struikel, dit is beter vir hom as 'n meulsteen om sy nek gehang en hy in die see gegooi word.

43 En as jou hand jou laat struikel, kap dit af. Dit is beter vir jou om vermink die lewe in te gaan, as om twee hande te hê en in die hel te gaan in die onuitbluslike vuur,

44 waar hulle wurm nie sterf en die vuur nie uitgeblus word nie.

45 En as jou voet jou laat struikel, kap dit af. Dit is beter vir jou om kreupel die lewe in te gaan, as om twee voete te hê en in die hel gewerp te word in die onuitbluslike vuur,

46 waar hulle wurm nie sterf en die vuur nie uitgeblus word nie.

47 En as jou oog jou laat struikel, pluk dit uit. Dit is beter vir jou om met een oog die koninkryk van God in te gaan, as om twee oë te hê en in die helse vuur gewerp te word,

48 waar hulle wurm nie sterf en die vuur nie uitgeblus word nie.

49 Want elkeen sal met vuur gesout word en elke offerande sal met sout gesout word.

50 Die sout is goed, maar as die sout souteloos word, waarmee sal julle dit smaaklik maak? Julle moet sout in julle hê en vrede hou met mekaar.