Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand, touched him, and told him, "I do want to. Be made clean!"

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.

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

"I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!"

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it the new from the old and a worse tear is made.

Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

Then he told them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.

He told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."

But you say, "If anyone tells his father or mother, "Whatever support you might have received from me is Corban,"' (that is, an offering to God)

Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"

But from the beginning of creation, "God made them male and female.'

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.

While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

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

Going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and kept praying that if it were possible the hour might pass from him.

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human hands.'"