When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gerasenes, two demon-possessed men met him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could travel on that road.

As the men were going out, a man who couldn't talk because he was demon-possessed was brought to him.

Then Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and every illness.

Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to talk was brought to him. Jesus healed him so that the man could speak and see.

I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn't heal him."

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"

Because he couldn't pay, his master ordered him, his wife, his children, and everything that he owned to be sold so that payment could be made.

But he refused and had him thrown into prison until he could repay the debt.

In anger his master handed him over to the jailers until he could repay the entire debt.

Then Jesus, deeply moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and at once they could see again. So they followed him.

No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.

Surely this perfume could've been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute."

When he went back to the disciples, he found them asleep. He told Peter, "So, you men couldn't stay awake with me for one hour, could you?

Then he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open.

Don't you think that I could call on my Father, and he would send me more than twelve legions of angels now?

But they couldn't find any, even though many false witnesses had come forward. At last two men came forward

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

Then he went home. Such a large crowd gathered again that Jesus and his disciples couldn't even eat.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.

He had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him.

He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

They could wear sandals but not take along an extra shirt.

So Herodias bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she couldn't do it

Jesus left that place and went to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, not wanting anyone to know he was there. However, it couldn't be kept a secret.

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

and his clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone on earth could bleach them.

When Jesus came home, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive the spirit out?"

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

Seeing in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves because it wasn't the season for figs.

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

Again he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open. They didn't even know what they should say to him.

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.

Suddenly, Zechariah could open his mouth, his tongue was set free, and he began to speak and to praise God.

He granted us deliverance from our enemies' grip so that we could serve him without fear

When they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on his stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the room, right in front of Jesus.

The others were furious and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

When they couldn't pay it back, he generously canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?"

His mother and his brothers came to him, but they couldn't get near him because of the crowd.

A woman was there who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years. Although she had spent all she had on doctors, no one could heal her.

When the woman saw that she couldn't hide, she came forward trembling. Bowing down in front of him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had touched Jesus and how she had been instantly healed.

I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't."

And they couldn't argue with him about this.

and say, "This person started a building but couldn't finish it.'

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

The Lord replied, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you!

Immediately the man could see again and began to follow Jesus, glorifying God. All the people saw this and gave praise to God.

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he couldn't do so due to the crowd, since he was a short man.

"After he was appointed king, the prince came back. He ordered the servants to whom he had given the money to be called so he could find out what they had earned by investing.

Then why didn't you put my money in the bank? When I returned, I could have collected it with interest.'

"If you had only known today what could have brought you peace! But now it is hidden from your sight,

but they couldn't find a way to do it, because all the people were eager to hear him.

So they couldn't catch him before the people in what he said. Amazed at his answer, they became silent.

So he went off and discussed with the high priests and the Temple police how he could betray Jesus to them.

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?"

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

Of course, Jesus also did many other things, and I suppose that if every one of them were written down, the world couldn't contain the books that would be written.

Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the Temple.

And seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could not say anything against them.

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

When the commander of the Temple guards and the high priests heard these words, they were utterly at a loss as to what could have happened to them.

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

When Saul got up off the ground, he couldn't see anything, even though his eyes were open. So his companions took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

For three days he couldn't see, and he didn't eat or drink anything.

All at once something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.

While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.

Now in Lystra there was a man sitting down who couldn't use his feet. He had been crippled from birth and had never walked.

Even by saying this, it was all Paul and Barnabas could do to keep the crowds from offering sacrifices to them.

So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

He had four unmarried daughters who could prophesy.

When he could not be persuaded otherwise, we remained silent except to say, "May the Lord's will be done."

Some of the crowd shouted this and some that. Since the tribune couldn't learn the facts due to the confusion, he ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks.

"The Lord told me, "Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything you are destined to do.' Since I could not see because of the brightness of the light, the men who were with me took me by the hand and led me into Damascus.

came to me. He stood beside me and said, "Brother Saul, receive your sight!' At that moment I could see him.

When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

But Paul appealed his case and asked to be held in prison until the decision of his Majesty. So I ordered him to be held in custody until I could send him to the emperor."

Agrippa told Festus, "This man could have been set free if he hadn't appealed to the emperor."

Since the harbor was not a good place to spend the winter, most of the men favored putting out to sea from there on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix and spend the winter there. It is a Cretian harbor that faces southwest and northwest.

When a gentle breeze began to blow from the south, they thought they could make it to Phoenix, so they hoisted anchor and began sailing along the shore of Crete.

The ship was caught so that it couldn't face the wind, and we gave up and were swept along.

When day came, they didn't recognize the land, but they could see a bay with a beach on which they planned to run the ship ashore, if possible.

But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow stuck and couldn't be moved, while the stern was broken to pieces by the force of the waves.

but the centurion wanted to save Paul, so he prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

Of course not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?

for I could wish that I myself were condemned and cut off from the Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my own people,

Then you will say, "Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in."

Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!

You know that when you were unbelievers, you were enticed and led astray to worship idols that couldn't even speak.