So Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

and found Him, and said to Him, "Everybody is looking for you."

And He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring towns, to preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

And His heart was moved with pity for him, so He stretched out His hand and touched him, and said, "I do want to! Be cured!"

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralyzed man, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

Now Jesus at once felt in His spirit that they were arguing about this, and said, "Why are you arguing to yourselves about this?

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralyzed man He said,

And as He was passing by, He saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting in the tax-collector's office, and He said to him, "Follow me." Then he got up and followed Him.

And when the scribes who belonged to the Pharisees' party saw that He was eating with notorious sinners and tax-collectors, they said to His disciples, "Why does He eat with tax-collectors and notorious sinners?"

Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

Then He said to them, "The Sabbath was made to serve man and not man to keep the Sabbath.

But He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up in the crowd."

So Jesus looked around at them in anger, because He was pained over their stubbornness of mind, and said to the man, "Hold out your hand." And he held it out, and his hand was cured.

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the other side of the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon -- yes, a vast throng of people, as they kept hearing of the great things that He was doing, came to Him.

He said so, because they kept saying, "He is under the spell of a foul spirit."

Then looking around at the people sitting about Him, He said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.

As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up.

Some fell among the thorn seed, and the thorns grew up and choked them out and they yielded no grain.

And He said, "Let him who has ears listen!"

Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that

Then He said to them: "If you do not understand this story, how, indeed, can you understand any of my stories?

He also was saying: "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground,

then continues sleeping by night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up without his knowing how.

It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all seeds,

That same day when it was evening, He said to them, "Let us go over to the other Side."

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Be still." And the wind lulled, and there was a great calm.

They were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can He be that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"

So they landed on the other side of the sea in the region of Gerasa.

However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."

When Jesus again had crossed in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about Him, as He was standing on the seashore.

And He said to her, "My daughter, your faith has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease."

Even while He was saying this, people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Teacher any longer?"

But Jesus paid no attention to what was said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only keep up your faith."

And He went into the house and said to them, "Why do you continue all this confusion and crying? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping."

Then He grasped her hand and said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!"

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were dumbfounded when they heard Him, and said, "Where did He get all these things? What sort of wisdom is it that has been given Him? And such mighty deeds are done by Him!

But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never fails to be honored except in his native neighborhood, among his kinsmen, and in his own home."

And He continued to say to them, "Whenever you put up at a house, stay there until you leave that place.

But when Herod heard of Him, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

Herodias' daughter came in and danced for them, and fascinated Herod and his guests. So the king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I will give it to you."

And He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and rest a little while." For there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and they had no time even to eat.

So when He got out of the boat, He saw a great crowd waiting, and His heart was moved with pity at the sight of them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and so He proceeded to teach them a number of things.

When it grew late, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a destitute place and it is already late.

But He answered them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." Then they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

Then He ordered them all to sit down in rows on the green grass.

for they all saw Him and were terrified. But He at once spoke to them and said, "Keep up courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

They crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret and anchored the boat.

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death,'

and so you set aside what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many other practices like these."

Again He called the people to Him and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

Then He said to her, "Because you have said this, go home; the demon has gone out of your daughter."

Then He looked up to heaven and sighed, as He said, "Ephphatha," which means, "Be opened."

In those days when a great crowd again had gathered and they had nothing to eat, He called His disciples to Him, and said,

So He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to His disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.

But He sighed in spirit and said, "Why do the people of these times ask for a spectacular sign? I solemnly say, no sign at all will be given them."

And He left them and again got into the boat and crossed to the other side.

And as He noticed it He said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

Do you not remember how many basketfuls of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for the five thousand?" They said to Him, "Twelve."

"And how many hamper-basketfuls of pieces when I broke the seven loaves in pieces for the four thousand?" They said to Him, "Seven."

He said to them, "How is it that you do not understand?"

Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

And He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, some of the people standing here will certainly live to see the kingdom of God come in its power."

Then Peter interrupted and said to Jesus, "Teacher, it is good for us to be here. So let us put up three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah."

Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!"

The boy's father at once cried out and said, "I do have faith; help my lack of faith!"

Then Jesus, because He saw that a crowd was rushing up to Him, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never get into him again."

Then it gave a shriek and violently convulsed the boy, and got out of him. And the boy looked like a corpse, so much so that the people said that he was dead.

So He sat down and called the Twelve to Him and said, "If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

Then He took a little child and had him stand in the midst of them; then He took him in His arms, and said to them,

John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to drive out demons, and we tried to stop him, for he was not one of our followers."

Jesus said, "Do not try to stop him, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty deed, and then be able soon to abuse me.

But Jesus said to them, "It was due to your moral perversity that Moses wrote that command in your law.

So He said to them, "If any man divorces his wife to marry another woman, he commits adultery against his former wife,

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant, and said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

Then Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing. Go, sell everything you have, and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!"

His disciples were startled at this statement. But Jesus again said to them as He continued the topic, "My children, how hard it is to get into the kingdom of God!

They were perfectly dumbfounded, and said to Him, "Then who can be saved?"

But Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but everything is possible for God."

Jesus said, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farm for me and for the good news,

And Zebedee's two sons, James and John, came up to Him and said, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask."

They answered Him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your splendor."

Jesus said to them, "You do not realize what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am drinking, or endure the baptism of agony that I am to endure?"

They answered Him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "Yes, the cup that I am drinking you will have to drink, and the baptism of agony that I am enduring you will have to endure,

Then Jesus called them to Him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men rule as despots over them;

For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

So Jesus stopped and said, "Tell him to come here." Then they told the blind man, saying, "Cheer up! Get up! He is calling for you."

Then Jesus said to him, "Go; your faith has cured you." And all at once he could see again, and began to follow Jesus along the road.

and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and as soon as you get into it, you will find a colt tied which has never been ridden by a man. Untie it and bring it here.

but some bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"

So He spoke to it and said, "Never again may anyone eat a fig from you!" And His disciples were listening to it.

Then the high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they kept looking for some way to destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him, for everybody was swept off his feet at what He said.

And Peter remembered about it, and said to Him, "Look, Teacher! The fig tree which you cursed has withered!"

and said to Him, "What sort of authority have you for doing as you do? Or, who gave you the authority to do as you do?"

Jesus said to them, "Let me ask you just one question, and if you answer me, I will tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do.

So they said to Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus also said to them, "Nor am I going to tell you what sort of authority I have for doing as I do."

He had one more to send, his dearly loved son; at last he sent him to them, for he said to himself, 'They will surely respect my son.'