Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people."

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.

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. "Follow me," he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

Everyone ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Twelve."

"When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Seven."

Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, someone ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

As Jesus looked at him, he felt love for him and said, "You lack one thing. Go, sell whatever you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

Peter began to speak to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you!"

"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

He sent two of his disciples and told them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

Peter said to him, "Even if they all fall away, I will not!"

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."