And just as soon as He started to come up out of the water, He saw the heavens split open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter Him.

And they were dumbfounded at His teaching, for He was teaching them like one who had authority to teach, and not like the scribes.

Then he got up and at once picked up his pallet, and went out before them all. The result was that they were all dumbfounded and began to praise God and say, "We have never seen anything like this before."

So the Pharisees were saying to Him, "Just look! Why are they doing on the Sabbath what it is against the law to do?"

'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest, perchance, they should turn and be forgiven.'"

In like manner these are the ones sown on rocky ground; as soon as they hear the truth, they accept it with ecstasy,

He also was saying: "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground,

It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all seeds,

With many stories like these He kept on telling them the message, as far as they could understand it.

And He wondered at their lack of faith in Him. Then He made a circle of the villages and continued teaching.

But others were saying that He was Elijah, and still others that He was a prophet like the prophets of old.

The king, although exceedingly sorry, yet on account of his oath and his guests, did not like to refuse her,

But many people saw them start and knew of it and ran around the lake from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

So when He got out of the boat, He saw a great crowd waiting, and His heart was moved with pity at the sight of them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and so He proceeded to teach them a number of things.

and so you set aside what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many other practices like these."

Then He kept warning them by saying, "Look out! Keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

He looked up and answered, "I see the people, but they look to me like trees moving around."

Then He asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" He answered, "From his childhood;

The boy's father at once cried out and said, "I do have faith; help my lack of faith!"

Then it gave a shriek and violently convulsed the boy, and got out of him. And the boy looked like a corpse, so much so that the people said that he was dead.

"Whoever, as a disciple of mine, welcomes one little child like this, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not merely me but Him who sent me."

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

And Peter remembered about it, and said to Him, "Look, Teacher! The fig tree which you cursed has withered!"

Should we pay it, or should we not?" Now because He saw their pretense, He said to them, "Why are you testing me so? Bring me a twenty-cent coin to look at."

And in His teaching He continued to say: "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, to be saluted with honor in public places,

As He was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, "Look, Teacher! What stupendous stones, what beautiful buildings!"

Jesus began to say to them: "Look out that no one misleads you about it.

"If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! Here is the Christ,' or, 'Look! There He is,' do not believe it.

It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.

Get up, let us be going. Look! here comes my betrayer!"

Later on He appeared to the Eleven themselves while they were at table, and reproved them for their lack of faith and their stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had been raised from the dead.