but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow."

There he could not do any miracle, beyond laying his hands on a few sick people and curing them.

also they cast out a number of daemons and cured a number of sick people by anointing them with oil.

The king was very vexed, but for the sake of his oaths and his guests he did not like to disappoint her;

they hurried round all the district and proceeded to carry the sick on their pallets wherever they heard that he was;

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

and his clothes glistened white, vivid white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.

As they went down the hill, he forbade them to tell anyone what they had seen, till such time as the Son of man rose from the dead.

but Jesus was angry when he saw this, and he said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not stop them: the Realm of God belongs to such as these.

Jesus said, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days!

Had not the Lord cut short those days, not a soul would be saved alive; but he has cut them short for the sake of the elect whom he has chosen.

they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."