The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.

He replied, "Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do."

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

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

As Jesus was having a meal in Levi's home, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

Then Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

There on the hillside, a great herd of pigs was feeding.

They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind -- the one who had the "Legion" -- and they were afraid.

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years.

He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.

If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

He said to them, "Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while" (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.

Now there were five thousand men who ate the bread.

After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there.

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."

After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

There were about four thousand who ate. Then he dismissed them.

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."

They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,

Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel

and said to them, "Go to the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

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

Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) also came to him and asked him,

There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

The expert in the law said to him, "That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.

For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'Look, there he is!' do not believe him.

For they said, "Not during the feast, so there won't be a riot among the people."

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."

There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him.

But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you."