Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea

and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things he was doing, came to him.

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat.

And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside begging.

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

And they sought to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they knew he had spoken the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

And Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the multitude putting money into the treasury. Many people who were rich put in large sums.