All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

Others fell on stony ground, where they didn't have a lot of soil. They sprouted at once, because the soil wasn't deep.

Others fell among thorn bushes, and the thorn bushes came up and choked them out, and they didn't produce anything.

But others fell on good soil and produced a crop. They grew up, increased in size, and produced 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

Others are like the seeds sown on the stony ground. When they hear the word, at once they joyfully accept it,

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

but the worries of life, the deceitful pleasures of wealth, and the desires for other things come in and choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

Others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, accept it, and produce crops 30, 60, or 100 times what was sown."

With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

That day, when evening had come, he told them, "Let's cross to the other side."

So they left the crowd and took him away in a boat without making any special preparations. Other boats were with him.

They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.

When Jesus again had crossed to the other side in a boat, a large crowd gathered around him by the seashore.

Others were saying, "He is Elijah." Still others were saying, "He is a prophet like one of the other prophets."

They don't eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the proper washing of washing cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)

You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."

Leaving them, he got into a boat again and crossed to the other side.

They answered him, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets."

As they approached the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.

Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

Now Jesus and his disciples had been on the road going up to Jerusalem, with Jesus walking ahead of them. They were astonished, and the others who followed were afraid.

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

When the ten other disciples heard this, they began to be furious with James and John.

Many people spread their coats on the road, while others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.

Then the man sent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants. Some of these they beat, and others they killed.

"Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, execute the farmers, and give the vineyard to others.

The second is this: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."

Then the scribe told him, "Well said, Teacher! You have told the truth that "God is one, and there is no other besides him.'

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

But Peter kept saying emphatically, "Even if I have to die with you, I'll never deny you!" And all the others kept saying the same thing.

They crucified two bandits with him, one on his right and the other on his left.

In the same way, the high priests, along with the scribes, were also making fun of him among themselves. They kept saying, "He saved others, but can't save himself!

They used to accompany him and care for him while he was in Galilee. Many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him were there, too.

They went back and told the others, who didn't believe them, either.