But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

and as they could not get near Jesus on account of the crowd they tore up the roof under which he stood and through the opening they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic lay.

In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it;

who dwelt among the tombs; by this time no one could bind him, not even with a chain,

for he had often been bound with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters ??nobody could tame him.

There he could not do any miracle, beyond laying his hands on a few sick people and curing them.

Herodias had a grudge against him; she wanted him killed but she could not manage it,

And he said to them, "Come away to some lonely spot and get a little rest" (for there were many people coming and going, and they could get no time even to eat).

Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;

What could a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

and his clothes glistened white, vivid white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.

and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?"

and noticing a fig tree in leaf some distance away he went to see if he could find anything on it; but when he reached it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for figs.

She has done all she could ??she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

Then he came and found them asleep; so he said to Peter, "Are you sleeping, Simon? Could you not watch for a single hour?

Now the high priests and the whole of the Sanhedrin tried to secure evidence against Jesus, in order to have him put to death; but they could find none,