and such numbers of people came together that there was no longer room for them even round the door. He was speaking His Message to them,

Grieved and indignant at the hardening of their hearts, He looked round on them with anger, and said to the man, "Stretch out your arm." He stretched it out, and the arm was completely restored.

Now a crowd was sitting round Him; so they tell Him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, inquiring for you."

And, fixing His eyes on the people who were sitting round Him in a circle, He said,

Immediately Jesus, well knowing that healing power had gone from within Him, turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

He wondered at their unbelief. So He went round the adjacent villages, teaching.

When the Apostles had re-assembled round Jesus, they reported to Him all they had done and all they had taught.

But turning round and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Adversary," He said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but men's."

Instantly they looked round, and now they could no longer see any one, but themselves and Jesus.

And taking a young child He made him stand in their midst, then threw His arms round him and said,

"And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

Then looking round on His disciples Jesus said, "With how hard a struggle will the possessors of riches enter the Kingdom of God!"

So He came into Jerusalem and into the Temple; and after looking round upon everything there, the hour being now late He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

Then He began to speak to them in figurative language. "There was once a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, fenced it round, dug a pit for the wine-tank, and built a strong lodge. Then he let the place to vine-dressers and went abroad.

One youth indeed did follow Him, wearing only a linen cloth round his bare body. Of him they laid hold,