Lexicon :: Strong's G1161 - de

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

“I baptize you with[fn] water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

After John was arrested, Jesus went to Galilee, proclaiming the good news[fn][fn] of God:

As he passed alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting a net into the sea ​— ​for they were fishermen.

At once the news about him spread throughout the entire vicinity of Galilee.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once.

When evening came, after the sun had set, they brought to him all those who were sick and demon-possessed.

Moved with compassion,[fn] Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him. “Be made clean.”

Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news, with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly. But he was out in deserted places, and they came to him from everywhere.

Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

“But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” ​— ​he told the paralytic —

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees[fn] were fasting. People came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast? ”

“But the time[fn] will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.

Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save life or to kill? ” But they were silent.

“But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”[fn] ​— ​

A crowd was sitting around him and told him, “Look, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters[fn] are outside asking for you.”

“Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn’t have much soil, and it grew up quickly, since the soil wasn’t deep.

When he was alone, those around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables.

“Some are like the word sown on the path. When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.[fn]

“As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

He did not speak to them without a parable. Privately, however, he explained everything to his own disciples.

So they left the crowd and took him along since he was in the boat. And other boats were with him.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him.

A large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside.

So he gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned there.

Jesus did not let him but told him, “Go home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.”

The woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.

When Jesus overheard[fn] what was said, he told the synagogue leader, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe.”

They laughed at him, but he put them all outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and those who were with him, and entered the place where the child was.

“Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us? ” So they were offended by him.

But others said, “He’s Elijah.” Still others said, “He’s a prophet, like one of the prophets from long ago.”

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for? ”

“John the Baptist’s head,” she said.

The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John’s head. So he went and beheaded him in prison,

“You give them something to eat,” he responded.

They said to him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii[fn] worth of bread and give them something to eat? ”

When they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out,

He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:

This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

“But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban’ ” (that is, an offering devoted to God),