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as well as James and John, Zebedee's sons, who were Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Stop being afraid; from now on you will be catching men."

Then He warned him not to tell anybody, but rather He said, "Go, show yourself to the priest, and, to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification, just as Moses prescribed."

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth" -- turning to the man who was paralyzed, He said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go home."

After this He went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi in his seat at the tax-collector's desk, and He said to him, "Follow me."

After that they said to Him, "John's disciples rigidly practice fasting and offering up prayers; so do the Pharisees, but your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

But Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

But He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand at the front." So he got up and stood there.

Then He glanced around at them all and said to him, "Put out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was at once completely restored.

When Jesus heard this, He was astounded at him, and turning to the crowd that was following Him He said, "I tell you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this!"

Then He went up and touched the hearse and the bearers stopped; and He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise."

Then the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

So the men went to Him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the One who was to come, or should we continue to look for someone else?'"

At that very hour He cured many people of diseases and scourges and evil spirits, and graciously granted sight to many blind persons.

So when the Pharisee who invited Him saw it, he said to himself, "If He were really a prophet, He would know who and of what character the woman is who is clinging to Him -- that she is a social outcast."

Then Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." "Teacher," said he, "go on and say it."

Simon answered, "The one, I suppose, for whom he canceled most." Then He said, "You are correct in your judgment."

And turning face to face with the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

But He said to the woman, "It is your faith that has saved you; go on in peace."

Now as a great crowd was coming together and people were coming to Him from one town after another, He said by way of a story:

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and were trodden down, and the wild birds ate them up.

And another portion fell in rich soil and grew and yielded a crop of a hundredfold." As He said this, He exclaimed, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"

One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm.

Then He said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and astounded, and continued to say to one another, "Who can He be? For He gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey Him."

As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs.

When he saw Jesus, he screamed and flung himself down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged Him to let him go with Him, but Jesus sent him away and said,

Then Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" But as all were denying that they had done so, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are jamming you and jostling you."

Still Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I felt it when the power passed from me."

While He was still speaking, someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; stop troubling the Teacher anymore."

Now they were all weeping and wailing over her. But He said, "Stop weeping! For she is not dead but asleep."

Into whatever house you go, stay there and continue to go out from it as headquarters.

And so they set out and went from village to village, telling the good news and curing people everywhere.

So Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who can this be about whom I hear such reports?" So he was trying to see Him.

As the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to Him, "Send the crowd off to the villages and farms around, to get lodging and to find food there, for we are in a destitute place here."

But He said to them, "Give them something to eat yourselves." Then they said, "We have only five loaves and two fish, unless we go ourselves and buy food for all these people."

For there were about five thousand men. So He said to His disciples, "Have them sit down in reclining groups of fifty each."

And they did so, and made all the people sit down and recline.

Now about eight days after Jesus said this, He took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying.

So they all continued to be utterly astounded at the greatness of God. Now while everybody was wondering at all that He was doing, He said to His disciples,

But Jesus, as He knew that the controversy was going on in their hearts, took a little child and had it stand by His side.

Then He said to them, "Whoever welcomes this little child on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me is welcoming Him who sent me; for the one who is lowliest among you all is really great."

Jesus said to him, "Stop hindering him, for the man who is not against you is for you."

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

While they were going along the road, a man said to Him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

He said to another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go back and bury my father."

Then He turned to His disciples when they were alone, and said, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing.

He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Continue to do this, and you will live."

Now a priest happened to be going that way, but when he saw him, he went by on the other side of the road.

So a Levite likewise came down to the place, but when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

The next day he took out a half dollar and handed it to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him, and on my way back I will repay you.'

He said, "The one who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Go and practice it yourself."

She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

But Martha was getting worried about having to wait on them so much, so she came up suddenly and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the housework alone? Then tell her to take hold and help me."

Once He was praying in a certain place, and when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

Then He said to them: "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves;

for a friend of mine has just come to my house on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him to eat.'

But He knew what they were thinking, and so said to them, "Any kingdom that is not united is in the process of destruction, and one house falls after another.

Just as He was saying this, a woman in the crowd lifted her voice and said, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

When He had said this, a Pharisee asked Him to lunch at his house, and He went in and took His place at table.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

Then an expert in the law interrupted Him and said, "Teacher, in saying this you are insulting us, too."

He said, "Yes, a curse on you experts in the law, too, because you load people down with loads too heavy to carry, and yet you do not touch the loads yourselves with one of your fingers!

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute';

Just then a man in the crowd said to Him, "Tell my brother to share with me our inheritance."

But He said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or umpire in your affairs?"

Then he said, 'This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and in them I will store all my grains and my goods.

Happy are those slaves whom the master, when he comes, will find on the watch for him. I solemnly say to you, he will tighten his belt and have them sit at table, and he will go around and wait on them.

Peter said to Him, "Lord, do you mean this story for us, or is it for everybody?"