And when those with him heard it, they went out to grasp him, for they said, He is beside himself.

but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit is never forgiven. Nay, he is in the grasp of an eternal sin."

so that they will continually look but not see, and they will continually hear but not understand, otherwise they might turn [from their rejection of the truth] and be forgiven.”

By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head.

And he made them all be seated in groups on the green grass.