He replied, "Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do."

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

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

Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

So he called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?

But no one is able to enter a strong man's house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

He also asked, "To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade."

Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat."

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."

His disciples answered him, "Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?"

Though you have eyes, don't you see? And though you have ears, can't you hear? Don't you remember?

What can a person give in exchange for his life?

He told them, "This kind can come out only by prayer."

Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."

They were even more astonished and said to one another, "Then who can be saved?"

If David himself calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,