But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.

He had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him.

He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

They could wear sandals but not take along an extra shirt.

So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn't do it

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

and his clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone on earth could bleach them.

When Jesus came home, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive the spirit out?"

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

Seeing in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves because it wasn't the season for figs.

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

Again he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open. They didn't even know what they should say to him.

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.