Now after some days, when he returned to Capernaum, the news spread that he was at home.

Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.

Now some of the experts in the law were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times."

Now King Herod heard this, for Jesus' name had become known. Some were saying, "John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him."

So they went away by themselves in a boat to some remote place.

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

And they saw that some of Jesus' disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance."

And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."

Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

Some people standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying that colt?"

He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed.

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

But some who were present indignantly said to one another, "Why this waste of expensive ointment?

Some stood up and gave this false testimony against him:

Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, "Prophesy!" The guards also took him and beat him.

When some of the bystanders heard it they said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah!"

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.