so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."

he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him.

As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"

and as he sowed it chanced that some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and ate it up;

some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,

some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so it bore no crop;

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

(For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.

A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet

and the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward in fear and trembling and fell down before him, telling him all the truth.

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet

Do you not remember how many baskets full of fragments you picked up when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand?" They said, "Twelve."

Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;

So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

But his face fell at that, and he went sadly away, for he had great possessions.

The passover and the festival of unleavened bread fell two days later; so the high priests and scribes were trying how to get hold of him by craft and have him put to death.

So he despatched two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a water-jar; follow him,

and when evening fell he arrived along with the twelve.

But he took Peter and James and John along with him; and as he began to feel appalled and agitated,

Then he went forward a little and fell to the earth, praying that the hour might pass away from him, if possible.

one young man did follow him, with only a linen sheet thrown round his body, but when the [young] men seized him

Again the maidservant who had noticed him began to tell the bystanders, "That fellow is one of them."

And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,