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

Just at that moment there was a man in their synagogue who was under the spell of a foul spirit, and so he screamed,

Then the foul spirit convulsed him and with a deafening shriek got out of him.

They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him."

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.

Levi was at table in his house, and he had many tax-collectors and notorious sinners as guests, along with Jesus and His disciples, for there were many of them, and they began to follow Him.

And whenever the foul spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed, "You are the Son of God."

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

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

Some fell upon rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep;

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

Some fell in rich soil, and came up and grew and yielded thirty, sixty, even a hundredfold."

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him.

On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him,

For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."

So He let them do so. And the foul spirits came out of the man and got into the hogs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the cliff and into the sea and were drowned.

So the woman, as she knew what had taken place for her, though frightened and trembling, came forward and fell on her knees before His feet, and told Him the whole truth.

And He called the Twelve to Him and sent them out two by two, and gave them power over the foul spirits.

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

He kept on saying, "The thing that comes from the inside of a man is the thing that makes him foul,

All these evils come from the inside of a man and make him foul."

On the contrary, a woman, whose little daughter had a foul spirit, at once heard about Him and came and flung herself at His feet.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?

And they brought the boy to Him. As soon as the spirit saw Him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and kept rolling over and foaming at the mouth.

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."

"For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I solemnly say to you, he will not fail to get his reward.

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."

But his countenance fell at that command, and he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

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.

So He sent off two of His disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

And he took Peter, James, and John along with Him, and He began to feel completely dazed and to realize His anguish of heart,

And the waiting girl saw him there and began again to tell the bystanders, "This fellow is one of them!"