The Gospel According to Mark Chapter 1:1-45

Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ (the Son of God).

Mark 1:2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: "Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way.

Mark 1:3 A voice of one crying out in the desert: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.'"

Mark 1:4 John (the) Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 1:5 People of the whole Judean countryside and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins.

Mark 1:6 John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He fed on locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:7 And this is what he proclaimed: "One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals..........

The Gospel According to Mark Chapter 2:1-28

Mark 2:1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days, it became known that he was at home.

Mark 2:2 Many gathered together so that there was no longer room for them, not even around the door, and he preached the word to them.

Mark 2:3 They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.

Mark 2:4 Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they opened up the roof above him. After they had broken through, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Child, your sins are forgiven."

Mark 2:6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves,

Mark 2:7 "Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?".................

The Gospel According to Mark Chapter 3:1-35

Mark 3:1 Again he entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand.

Mark 3:2 They watched him closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him.

Mark 3:3 He said to the man with the withered hand, "Come up here before us."

Mark 3:4 Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?" But they remained silent.

Mark 3:5 Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was restored.

Mark 3:6 The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.

Mark 3:7 Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples. A large number of people (followed) from Galilee and from Judea........

The Gospel According to Mark Chapter 4:1-41

Mark 4:1 On another occasion he began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land.

Mark 4:2 And he taught them at length in parables, and in the course of his instruction he said to them,

Mark 4:3 "Hear this! A sower went out to sow.

Mark 4:4 And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

Mark 4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

Mark 4:6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched and it withered for lack of roots.

Mark 4:7 Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it produced no grain.............

The Gospel According to Mark Chapter 5:1-43

Mark 5:1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes.

Mark 5:2 When he got out of the boat, at once a man  from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.

Mark 5:3 The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain.

Mark 5:4 In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

Mark 5:5 Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.

Mark 5:6 Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and prostrated himself before him,

Mark 5:7 crying out in a loud voice, "What have you to do with me,  Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!"...............