As he was passing along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets in the sea, for they were fishermen.

They immediately abandoned their nets and followed him.

He went on a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; they too were in their boat putting their nets in order.

He immediately called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went off after him.

They proceeded to Capernaum, and on the very first Sabbath he went to the synagogue and taught.

And they were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

And they were all so amazed that they discussed it with one another, and said, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching! He gives orders with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the house of Simon and Andrew.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her.

In the evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed by demons,

And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew that he was Christ.

and found him, and said to him, "They are all looking for you!"

As they could not get him near Jesus on account of the crowd, they broke open the roof just over his head, and through the opening they lowered the mat with the paralytic lying on it.

Jesus, at once perceiving by his spirit that they were pondering over this, said to them, "Why do you ponder over this in your minds?

And he got up, and immediately picked up his mat and went out before them all, so that they were all astonished and acknowledged the power of God, saying, "We never saw anything like this before."

And when the scribes who were of the Pharisees' party saw that he was eating with irreligious people and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and when that day comes, they will fast.

He happened to be passing through the wheat fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick the heads of wheat as they made their way through.

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

And they were watching him closely, to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge to bring against him.

And he said to them, "Is it allowable to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them harm? To save life or kill?" But they made no answer.

And whenever the foul spirits saw him, they fell down before him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"

And he went up the hillside and summoned to him those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

His relatives heard of it and came over to stop him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

I tell you, men will be forgiven for everything, for all their sins and all the abusive things they say.

This was because they said, "He is possessed by a foul spirit."

And his mother and his brothers came. And they stood outside the house and sent word in to him to come outside to them.

There was a crowd sitting around him when they told him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

so that " 'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest possibly they should turn and be forgiven.' ",

The ones by the path are those into whose hearts the message falls, and as soon as they hear it Satan comes and carries off the message that has been sown in their hearts.

It is so too with the ones sown on the rocky ground; they gladly accept the message as soon as they hear it,

but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.

It is different with those sown among the thorns. They are people who listen to the message,

For people who have will have more given them, and from people who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.

With many such figures he told them the message, as far as they were able to receive it.

So they left the crowd and took him away in the boat in which he was sitting. There were other boats with him.

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him up and said to him, "Master, does it make no difference to you that we are sinking?"

And they were very much frightened, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For even the wind and the sea obey him."

So they reached the other side of the sea, and landed in the region of Gerasa.

And they begged him earnestly not to send them out of that country.

And they implored him, "Send us among the pigs, let us go into them."

When they came to Jesus and found the demoniac sitting quietly with his clothes on and in his right mind??he same man who had been possessed by Legion??hey were frightened.

And they began to beg him to leave their district.

And he went off and began to tell everybody in the Ten Towns all Jesus had done for him; and they were all astonished.

But Jesus paid no attention to what they said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid, just have faith."

They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, and there he found everything in confusion, and people weeping and wailing.

And they laughed at him. But he drove them all out, and took the child's father and mother and the men who were with him and went into the room where the child was lying.

And the little girl immediately got up and walked about, for she was twelve years old. The moment they saw it they were utterly amazed.

When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him?

And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and among his relatives and at his home."

they were to go in sandals, and not to wear two shirts.

So they went out and preached that men should repent,

When his disciples heard of it they came and took his body away and put it in a tomb.

The apostles rejoined Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to some quiet place, and rest a little while." For people were coming and going in large numbers, and they had no time even for meals.

So they set off by themselves in their boat for a secluded place.

So when he got out of the boat, he found a great crowd gathered, and his heart was touched at the sight of them, because they were like sheep that have no shepherd; and he proceeded to teach them a great deal.

But he answered, "Give them food yourselves." They said to him, "Can we go and buy forty dollars' worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

But he said to them, "How many loaves have you? Go and see." They looked, and told him. "Five, and two fish."

And they threw themselves down in groups, in hundreds and in fifties.

And they all ate and had enough.

And the pieces they gathered up filled twelve baskets, besides the pieces of the fish.

And he saw that they were straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, and toward morning he went out to them, walking on the sea, and was going to join them.

They saw him walking on the sea, and thought it was a ghost and screamed aloud,

for they all saw him and were terrified. But he immediately spoke to them and said, "Take courage, it is I. Do not be afraid."

Then he went up to them and got into the boat. And the wind fell. And they were perfectly beside themselves,

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their minds were blinded.

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

As soon as they came ashore, the people recognized Jesus,

and they hurried all over the countryside and began to bring the sick to him on their mats, wherever they heard he was.

And whatever village or town or farm he went to, they would lay their sick in the market-place and beg him to let them touch just the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched it were cured.

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food without first giving their hands a ceremonial washing to purify them.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way,

and they will not eat anything from the market without first purifying it by sprinkling it, and they have a number of other observances which have come down to them, in the way of washing cups, pitchers, and basins.

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly??23 all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."

He said to her, "Let the children first eat all they want, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.

And Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide.

In those days when a great crowd had gathered again and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,

"I pity these people, for they have been staying with me three days now, and they have nothing left to eat.

And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."

"How many loaves have you?" he asked. "Seven," they said.

Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground. And 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.

They had a few small fish, and he blessed them and told the disciples to pass them also to the people.

And they ate and satisfied their hunger. And the pieces that they left, that were picked up, filled seven baskets.

Now they had forgotten to bring any bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

They were discussing with one another their being without bread.

how many baskets of pieces you picked up when I broke the five loaves in pieces for those five thousand men?" They said to him, "Twelve."

"When I broke the seven loaves in pieces for the four thousand, how many baskets of pieces did you pick up?" They said to him, "Seven."

And they came to Bethsaida. And people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.

He looked up and said, "I can see people, for they look to me like trees, only they are moving about."

They said to him, "John the Baptist; others say Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets."

And Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they talked with Jesus.

For he did not know what to say, they were so frightened.

And suddenly, on looking around, they saw that there was now no one with them but Jesus alone.

As they were going down the mountain, he cautioned them to let no one know what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

And they did not forget what he said, but discussed with one another what he meant by the rising from the dead.

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"