And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above him; and when they had broken through, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

And he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him.

because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

But when the sun came up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.

But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

And he marveled because of their unbelief. Then he went around the villages teaching.

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

And the king was exceedingly sorry; but, because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.

When Jesus went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began to teach them many things.

for they had not understood about the loaves, because their hearts were hardened.

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat.

And they discussed it with one another, saying, "It is because we have no bread."

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name and we forbade him, because he was not one of us."

For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, will by no means lose his reward.

But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

Later he appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.