Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they *spoke to Jesus about her.

And He healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

“Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins but God alone?”

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

for they all saw Him and were terrified. But immediately He spoke with them and *said to them, “Take courage; it is I, do not be afraid.”

They *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *implored Him to lay His hand on him.

They were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”

But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

They spoke to them just as Jesus had told them, and they gave them permission.

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;