MARK, Office of John the Baptist. Jesus preaches. he goeth before you into Galilee; there 14 And if this come to the governor's shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. 8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre, with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. 15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is com 9 And as they went to tell his disci- monly reported among the Jews until this ples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All day. hail. And they came, and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. 10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me. 11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. 16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore and teach all nations, 12 And when they were assembled with baptizing them in the name of the Father, the elders, and had taken counsel, they and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; gave large money unto the soldiers, 20 Teaching them to observe all things 13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came whatsoever I have commanded you: and by night, and stole him away while we lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end slept. of the world. Amen. The Gospel according to Saint MARK. CHAP. I. the wild beasts: and the angels ministered THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus unto him. Christ of God; 14 Now after that John was put in 2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching I send my messenger before thy face, which the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and shall prepare thy way before thee; 3 The voice of one crying in the wil- the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, derness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and believe the gospel. make his paths straight. 4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins. 16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. 5 And there went out unto him all the 17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and after me, and I will make you to become were all baptized of him in the river of Jor- fishers of men. dan, confessing their sins. 18 And straightway they forsook their 19 And when he had gone a little further 6 And John was clothed with camels' nets, and followed him. hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, honey; one 7 And preached, saying, There cometh nightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. 8 I indeed have baptized you with water : but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. 20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. 21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath-day he entered into the synagogue and taught. 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him. - 11 And there came a voice from heaven, 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 12 And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. 13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted of Satan: and was with to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth ? Christ cures the sick. CHAP. II. hım, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. He heals the palsy. CHAP. II. ND again he entered into Capernaum, after some days; and it was noised 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch A that they questioned among themselves, that he was in the house. saying, What thing is this? what new doc- 2 And straightway many were gathered trine is this? for with authority command- together, insomuch that there was no room eth he even the unclean spirits, and they to receive them, no, not so much as about do obey him. the door: and he preached the word unto 28 And immediately his fame spread them. abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. 3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of 29 And forthwith, when they were four. come out of the synagogue, they entered 4 And when they could not come nigh into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever; and anon they tell him of her. 31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. 32 And at even when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. 6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, 7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? 33 And all the city was gathered toge- 8 And immediately, when Jesus perther at the door. 34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. 35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. 36 And Simon, and they that were with him, followed after him. 37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee. 38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth. 39 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils. 40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. ceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? 9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? 10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) 11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house. 12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all: insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion. 13 And he went forth again by the sea-side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alpheus, sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. 15 And it came to pass, that as Jesus 42 And as soon as he had spoken, im-sat at meat in his house, many publicans mediately the leprosy departed from him, and sinners sat also together with Jesus and he was cleansed. and his disciples; for there were many, and 41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and And he arose, and followed him. saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. 43 And he straitly charged him, and they followed him. forthwith sent him away; 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees 44 And saith unto him, See thou say saw him eat with publicans and sinners, nothing to any man; but go thy way, they said unto his disciples, How is it that shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy he eateth and drinketh with publicans and cleansing those things which Moses com- sinners? manded, for a testimony unto them. 17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto 45 But he went out, and began began to pub- them, They that are whole, have no need lish it much, and to blaze abroad the mat- of the physician, but they that are sick: I ter, insomuch that Jesus could no more came not to call the righteous, but sinners, openly enter into the city, but was without to repentance. in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter. 18 And the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees, used to fast: and they come, The withered hand healed. S. MARK. Christ chooses twelve apostles. and say unto him, Why do the disciples of tude from Galilee followed him, and from John, and of the Pharisees fast, but thy dis- Judea, ciples fast not? 8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idu19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the mea, and from beyond Jordan; and they children of the bride-chamber fast, while about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, the bridegroom is with them? As long as when they had heard what great things he they have the bridegroom with them, they did, came unto him. cannot fast. 9 And he spake to his disciples, that a 20 But the days will come, when the small ship should wait on him, because of bridegroom shall be taken away from the multitude, Jest they should throng them, and then shall they fast in those him. days. 10 For he had healed many; insomuch 21 No man also seweth a piece of new that they pressed upon him for to touch cloth on an old garment: else the new him, as many as had plagues. piece that filled it up, taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. 22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. 23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn-fields on the sabbath-day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. 24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath-day that which is not lawful? 25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he and they that were with him? 26 How he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shew-bread, which is not lawful o eat, but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him? 27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. CHAP. III. 11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. 12 And he straitly charged them, that they should not make him known. 13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. 14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, 15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils. 16 And Simon he surnamed Peter. 17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, (and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder,) 18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite, 19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him and they went into an house. 20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they AND he entered again into the syna- said, He is beside himself. gogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. 22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem, said, He hath Beelzebub, 2 And they watched him, whether he and by the prince of the devils casteth he would heal him on the sabbath-day; that they might accuse him. 3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. 4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath-days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? but they held their peace. 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, hearts, he he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. out devils. 23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house be divided against it self, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. 27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will 6 And the Pharisees went forth, and spoil his house. straightway took counsel with the Herodi- 28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall ans against him, how they might destroy be forgiven unto the sons of men, and him. blasphemies wherewith soever they shall 7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his blaspheme: disciples to the sea: and a great multi- 29 But he that shall blaspheme against CHAP. IV. and of the mustard-seed. The parables of the sower the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but have heard, Satan cometh immediately, is in danger of eternal damnation : 30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit. 31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and standing without, sent unto him, calling him. 32 And the multitude sat about him; and they said unto him, Behold, thy thy brethren without seek for thee. mother, and 33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren! in their hearts. are sown on stony ground; who, when they 17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when word's sake, immediately they are ofaffliction or persecution ariseth for the fended. among thorns; such as hear the word, 35 For whosoever shall do the will of deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of God, the same is my brother, and my sis- other things entering in, choke the word, ter, and mother. A CHAP. IV. and it becometh unfruitful. ND he began again to teach by the 20 And these are they which are sown sea-side: and there was gathered un- and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some on good ground; such as hear the word, to him a great multitude, so that he entered thirty-fold, some sixty, and some an huninto a ship, and sat in the sea; and the dred. whole multitude was by the sea, on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass as he sowed, some fell by the way-side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: 21 And he said unto them, Is a candle a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? brought to be put under a bushel, or under 22 For there is nothing hid, which shall kept secret, but that it should come abrcad. not be manifested; neither was any thing him hear. 23 If any man have ears to hear, let 24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: With what measure ye mete, that hear shall more be given. it shall be measured to you: and unto you 25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall 6 But when the sun was up, it was be taken even that which he hath. scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the 7 And some fell among thorns, and the ground; thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up, and increased, and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. 9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 10 And when he was alone, they that were about him, with the twelve, asked of him the parable. dom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 27 And should sleep, and rise night and up, he knoweth not how. day, and the seed should spring and grow 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, cause the harvest is come. immediately he putteth in the sickle, be 30 And he said, Whereunto shall we comparison shall we compare it ? liken the kingdom of God? or with what 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the king- 31 It is like a grain of mustard-seed, which, when than all the seeds that be in the earth: it is sown in the earth, is h, is less and becometh greater than all herbs, and 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. 13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? he the word unto them, as they were able 33 And with many such parables spake to hear it. 34 But without a parable spake he not 141 The sower soweth the word. 15 And these are they by the way-side, unto them: and when they were alone, he where the word is sown; but when they expounded all things to his disciples. 5 The legion of devils cast out. S. MARK. Christ heals the bloody issue. 35 And the same day, when the even 14 And they that fed the swine fled, and was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass told it in the city, and in the country. over unto the other side. And they went out to see what it was that was done. 36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. 37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? 15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind; and they were afraid. 16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. 17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. 18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. 39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still: and the wind ceased, and there was a great 19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but calm. saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and 40 And he said unto them, Why are ye tell them how great things the Lord hath so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? done for thee, and hath had compassion on 41 And they feared exceedingly, and thee. said one to another, What manner of man 20 And he departed, and began to pubis this, that even the wind and the sea obey lish in Decapolis how great things Jesus him? had done for him. And all men did mar CHAP. V. AND they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains : 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. 6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, vel. 21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him and he was nigh unto the sea. 22 And behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, 23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands ds on her, that she may be healed ; and she shall live. 24. And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. 25 And a certain woman which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou 27 When she had heard of Jesus, came Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. 8 (For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.) 9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. in the press behind, and touched his garment. 28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 10 And he besought him much that he 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in would not send them away out of the country. 11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. 12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 32 And he looked round about to see 13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. her that had done this thing. And the unclean spirits went out, and en- 33 But the woman, fearing and tremtered into the swine: and the herd ran bling, knowing what was done in her, came violently down a steep place into the sea, and fell down before him, and told him all (they were about two thousand,) and were the truth. choked in the sea. 34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy |