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

Jesus reproved him, and said, "Silence! Get out of him!"

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!"

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

He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring country towns, so that I may preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

And he pitied him and stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose! Be cured!"

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."

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?

But to let you know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth," turning to the paralytic he said,

And as he was passing along he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.

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 heard it, and said to them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. I did not come to invite the pious but the irreligious."

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.

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

He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he was in need and hungry, he and his men?

And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,

He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward."

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 he looked around at them with anger, hurt by their obstinacy, and he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and his hand was cured.

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

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

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

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

And looking around at the people sitting about him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.

He taught them many lessons in figures, and said to them in the course of his teaching,

and as he was sowing, some of the seed chanced to fall by the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

Some of the seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it out, and it yielded no grain.

And he said, "Let him who has ears be sure to listen!"

And he said to them, "To you has been intrusted the secret of the reign of God, but to those outsiders, everything is offered in figures,

And Jesus said, "If you do not understand this figure, then how will you understand my other figures?

"Do people get out the lamp," he said to them, "and then put it under the peck-measure, or under the bed, instead of putting it up where it belongs?

"Take care what you hear," he said to them. "The measure you give will be given to you, and even more besides.

"The reign of God," he said, "is like a man scattering seed on the ground,

and then sleeping at night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up, without his knowing it.

"How can we find any comparison," he said, "for the reign of God, or what figure can we use to describe it?

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown in the ground, though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the world,

He said nothing to them except in figures, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

That same day when it was evening he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side."

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?"

Then he awoke and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Silence!" And the wind went down and there was a great calm.

And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"

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 catching sight of Jesus in the distance he ran up and made obeisance to him

He asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for there are many of us."

And he would not permit it, but said to him, "Go home to your own people, and tell them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him as he stood on the shore.

for she said, "If I can only touch his clothes, I shall get well."

Jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him, and he turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?' "

And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease."

Even as he spoke people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why should you trouble the Master any further?"

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

And he went into the house and said to them, "What is the meaning of all this confusion and crying? The child is not dead, she is asleep."

And he grasped her hand and said to her, "Taleitha, koum!"??hat is to say, "Little girl, I tell you, get up!"

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."

And he said to them, "Whenever you go to stay at a house, remain in it till you leave that place.

But others said he was Elijah, and still others that he was a prophet of the old prophetic kind.

But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."

John said to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."

Herodias' own daughter came in and danced for them. And Herod and his guests were delighted, and the king said to the girl,

When she had left the room she said to her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" But she said, "The head of John the baptizer."

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.

When it grew late his disciples came up to him and said, "This is a lonely place and it is getting late.

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 he directed them all to sit down in parties on the fresh grass.

He immediately had his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he was dismissing the crowd.

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."

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

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

"How skilful you are," he said to them, "in nullifying what God has commanded in order to observe what has been handed down to you.

For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and again, 'Whoever abuses his father or mother must be put to death.'

and so you nullify what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many such practices."

He called the people to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this.

And he said to them, "Have not even you any understanding then? Do you not see that nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him,

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."

He said to her, "If you can say that, go home; the demon has left your daughter."

And he looked up to heaven and sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!"??hich means "Open."

And people were utterly amazed, and said, "How well he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

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,

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

And he sighed deeply and said, "Why do the men of this day ask for a sign? I tell you, no sign will be given them."

And he left them and got into the boat again and crossed to the other side.

And he noticed it and said to them, "Why do you discuss your being without bread? Do you not yet see nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

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."

He said to them, "Do you not understand yet?"

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

And he sent him home and said to him, "Do not even go into the village."

Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

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

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ."

But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men."

And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

And he said to them, "I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the reign of God come in its might."