He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come with power.”
After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and brought them up into a high mountain apart by themselves. He was transfigured before them.
His clothes became shining, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth could whiten them.
Elijah appeared to them with Moses. They were talking with Jesus.
Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three tabernacles: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
For he didn’t know what to answer, for they were afraid.
A cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”
Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them, except Jesus only.
As they came down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
They kept this word to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant.
They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
He answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written of the Son of Man that he must suffer many things, and be treated with contempt?
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”
They came to the disciples. They saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
Immediately, all the multitude, when they saw him, were amazed, and running to him, they greeted him.
He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”
But one of the multitude answered him, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a dumb spirit.
Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes stiff. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they could not.”
He answered them, “O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
They brought the boy to him. When he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, and wallowed, foaming at the mouth.
He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” He said, “From childhood.
Often it has thrown 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.”
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Immediately the father of the child cried out, “I believe! Help my unbelief!”
When Jesus saw that the multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter him no more.”
The spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. He became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.”
But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”
They departed from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn’t want anyone to know it.
He was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise again.”
But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
He came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”
But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who would be the greatest.
He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
“Whoever receives one of such children in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me, but him who sent me.”
John answered him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he does not follow us.”
But Jesus said, “Don’t forbid him, for there is no one who will do a miracle in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
For whoever is not against us is for us.
For whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, most certainly I tell you, he will not lose his reward.
Whoever shall scandalize one of these little ones who believe in me, it is better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell.
If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell,
where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.
For everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.”
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