Now Simon's mother-in-law lay sick of fever, and without delay they told him about her.

Afterwards Jesus began to teach by the seaside, and a vast multitude of people gathered about him, so that he went on board a boat on the sea, and sat there, while all the people stayed on shore, at the water's edge.

When he was alone his followers and the Twelve began asking about the parables.

And he gave them leave. And out came the foul spirits and entered the swine; and the drove rushed down from the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand, and were choked in the sea.

So he went with him, and a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.

She had heard about Jesus, so she came in the crowd behind and touched his cloak.

Jesus, instantly conscious that the power within him had gone forth, turned about in the crowd, and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

"You see the crowd thronging about you," said his disciples, "and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'"

But he kept looking about to see who had done it,

He, however, repeatedly cautioned them not to let any one know about it, and directed them to give her something to eat.

Send the people away so that they may go to the farms and villages about here, and buy themselves something to eat."

but when he saw them distressed in rowing (for the wind was against them), about the fourth watch of the night he went to them, walking upon the sea,

for they had not understood about the loaves; on the contrary their heart was hardened.

and began running over that whole country, and carrying the sick about on their beds, wherever they heard he was.

After he had left the crowd and gone indoors his disciples began asking him about the parable.

They that had eaten were about four thousand.

The man looked up and said, "I can make out the people, for as they move about, I see them like trees."

Then he strictly charged them not to say this about him to any one;

"Elijah does indeed first come," he said, "and restores all things, But how is it written about the Son of Man, that he will endure great suffering, and be rejected?

"And if any one shall cause one of these little ones who believe on me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown out into the sea with a great millstone about his neck.

On leaving that place Jesus came into the borders of Judea, on the other side of the Jordan, Once more the people flocked about him, and again, as usual, he began teaching them.

When indoors the disciples began to question Jesus again about this, and he said:

They were still on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus led the way; and they were amazed, and some, although they followed, were afraid. Then once more he took the Twelve, and began to tell them what was about to befall him.

And they kept seeking to lay hold on him, but were afraid of the crowd, for they knew well that he had spoken this parable about them; so they left him and went away.

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

and in his teaching he said: "Look out for the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and to receive salutations in the street, and to have prominent places in the synagogues,

"Tell us when these things shall be, and what shall be the sign that all these predictions are about to be fulfilled."

When, however, they are leading you all to trial, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but whatever is given you in that hour, that say, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

And Jesus said to them. "All of you are about to stumble, for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad.'"

But he began with curses an solemn oaths to say, "I do not know the man you are talking about."