So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.

Simon's mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

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

And he said to them, "Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

Jesus gave them permission. So the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. Then the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake, and about two thousand were drowned in the lake.

Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.

When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,

He strictly ordered that no one should know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.

because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

He said to 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.

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

There were about four thousand who ate. Then he dismissed them.

So they began to discuss with one another about having no bread.

When he learned of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.

He spoke openly about this. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him."

He asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?"

But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

"Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that all these things are about to take place?"

When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."

But he denied it: "I don't even understand what you're talking about!" Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, "I do not know this man you are talking about!"