1 He also said to them, "Truly I say to you, some of those standing here will certainly not taste death until they see the kingdom of God having come with power."
2 Six days later Jesus took along Peter, James, and John, and brought them up a high mountain privately, by themselves. And he was transformed in front of them;
3 his garments became radiant, intensely white like snow, such as no launderer on earth is able to bleach them.
4 And Elijah appeared to them with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus.
5 Peter responded by saying to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is a fine thing for us to be here; let us set up three shelters, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
6 He did not know what to say, for they were filled with terror.
7 Then a cloud appeared, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud: "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!"
8 Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus alone.
9 On their way down the mountain, he ordered them not to describe to anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
10 They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what rising from the dead might mean.
11 They questioned him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"
12 He answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first and restores everything. And how is it written about the Son of Man that he must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
13 But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did with him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him."
14 When he came to the disciples, he saw a large crowd around them and scribes debating with them.
15 As soon as the whole crowd saw him, they were overcome with awe, and they ran up and greeted him.
16 He asked the scribes, "What are you debating with them?"
17 Someone from the crowd answered, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who has a spirit that makes him mute.
18 Wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and goes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were not able."
19 He answered him, "O unbelieving generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him to me."
20 So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw him into convulsions, and he fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
21 Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.
22 It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us."
23 Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible for the one who believes."
24 At once the boy's father cried out with tears, "I believe, Lord; help my unbelief!"
25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again!"
26 After crying out and throwing him into violent convulsions, it came out, and the boy became like a corpse, so that many said that he had died.
27 But Jesus took hold of his hand and raised him, and he stood up.
28 When he had gone into a house, his disciples asked him in private, "Why were we not able to drive it out?"
29 He told them, "This kind cannot come out by anything except through prayer and fasting."
30 Leaving there, they went on through Galilee, and he did not want anyone to know,
31 for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man is being handed over into the hands of men, and they will put him to death; and after being put to death, he will rise on the third day."
32 But they did not understand what he said, and they were afraid to ask him.
33 They came to Capernaum. Once inside the house, he asked them, "What were you discussing among yourselves on the road?"
34 But they kept quiet, for on the road they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
35 Sitting down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
36 Then he took a little child and stood him among them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
37 "Anyone who welcomes one little child like these in my name welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."
38 John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name who does not follow us, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us."
39 But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, for no one who performs a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.
40 For whoever is not against us is on our side.
41 For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name because you belong to Christ, truly I say to you, he will certainly not lose his reward.
42 And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he had been cast into the sea.
43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go off into hell, into the fire that cannot be quenched,
44 where their worm does not die and the fire is not put out.
45 And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell, into the fire that cannot be quenched,
46 where their worm does not die and the fire is not put out.
47 And 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 to have two eyes and be thrown into the hell of fire,
48 where their worm does not die and the fire is not put out.
49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.
50 Salt is good; but if the salt becomes saltless, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and keep peace with one another."