saying, "Let us alone! What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you arethe Holy One of God!"

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And as he sowed the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

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

And these are the ones along the path where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in them.

But without a parable he did not speak to them. And when they were alone, he explained everything to his own disciples.

And leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him.

When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he was alone on land.

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.

But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.