When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home.

After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

Now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain.

Jesus gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they were drowned in the sea.

And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him.”

But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen!”

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him.

A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;

and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests; and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.”

When his disciples heard about this, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

for they had not gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart was hardened.

and ran about that whole country and began to carry here and there on their pallets those who were sick, to the place they heard He was.

And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.)

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

And He was giving orders to them, saying, “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart?

But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

And Jesus, looking around, *said to His disciples, “How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!”

The disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus *answered again and *said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

When some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, “Behold, He is calling for Elijah.”

When they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they refused to believe it.

Afterward He appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reproached them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen.

they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”