John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him.

A crowd was sitting around Him, and they *said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside looking for You.”

Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, “Behold My mother and My brothers!

When Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him; and so He stayed by the seashore.

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?”

And He looked around to see the woman who had done this.

And He wondered at their unbelief.And He was going around the villages teaching.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem,

And he looked up and said, “I see men, for I see them like trees, walking around.”

But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and *said, “Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”

All at once they looked around and saw no one with them anymore, except Jesus alone.

When they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.

They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

Getting up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

And Jesus, looking around, *said to His disciples, “How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!”

Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

In His teaching He was saying: “Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and like respectful greetings in the market places,