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And this was his message: "After me there is coming one stronger than I am, one whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

So, they went to Capernaum [Note: This was a city in Galilee that later became Jesus' headquarters while in Galilee. See verse

At this, the unclean spirit shook the man, cried out with a loud voice, and came out of him.

upon this his fame immediately spread abroad over all the region of Galilee.

Then a person with an infectious skin disease came to Jesus and, kneeling down before Him, begged Him, saying, "If you want to, you can heal me." [Note: Throughout this narrative the term "heal/healing" is originally "clean/cleansing" because the Jews viewed a person with such a disease as ceremonially "unclean." See Lev. 13:1-3].

When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.

But Jesus at once drove him out of their presence, and gave him this stringent charge:

saying to him, “See that you tell no one anything [about this]; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your purification what Moses commanded, as proof to them [that you are really healed].”

But certain of the scribes were sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies?

Immediately Jesus, being fully aware [of their hostility] and knowing in His spirit that they were thinking this, said to them, “Why are you debating and arguing about these things in your hearts?

Which is easier?--to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are pardoned,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your mat, and walk?'

When Jesus heard this, He told them, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do need one. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

And it happened that Jesus was walking through the grainfields on the Sabbath day and His disciples began picking off heads of grain [to eat] as they traveled along. [Note: It was an accepted custom for people in that day to be permitted to do this as they walked along the paths bordering a grainfield].

For this reason the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

After this they went into an house, and the crowd press'd again upon them, so as to hinder them from taking their meal.

And the experts in the law of Moses who had come down from Jerusalem were saying [Note: This followed the incident of Jesus healing a man with an evil spirit. See Matt. 12:22-28], "He has Beelzebub [in him]," and "He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits."

By this time His mother and His brothers arrive, and standing outside they send a message to Him to call Him.

As he sowed, this occurred: Some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

And Jesus said, "Whoever has ears to hear with ought to listen [to this] carefully."

"To you," He replied, "has been entrusted the secret truth concerning the Kingdom of God; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;

This is so that even though they see, they will see and yet not perceive. And even though they hear, they will hear and yet not understand. For if they did, they would turn [back to God] again and receive forgiveness."

If anyone has ears to hear with, he ought to listen to this carefully."

And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground.

Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

By what can we illustrate it? Perhaps by the growth of a mustard-seed. This seed, when sown in the ground, though it is smaller than all other seeds,

In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it;

And leaving the crowd, the disciples took Him in their boat just the way He was [i.e., this probably means without His making provision for the trip]. They were accompanied by other boats also.

and the man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with chains.

For Jesus was saying to [the evil spirit in] him, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit."

Then He asked [the evil spirit], "What is your name?" And he answered Him, "My name is 'Legion,' [Note: This word means a number consisting of between 5,000 and 6,000], for there are many of us [i.e., evil spirits]."

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

On this the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country round; and the people went to see what had happened.

Those who saw this told the people what had happened to the man dominated by the evil spirits and about the [wild] hogs.

Even while He was saying this, people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Teacher any longer?"

And they came to the house of the ruler of the Synagogue; and he saw people running this way and that, and weeping and crying loudly.

To this their reply is a scornful laugh. He, however, puts them all out, takes the child's father and mother and those He has brought with Him, and enters the room where the child lies.

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk. (She was 12 years old.) At this they were utterly astounded.

And he charged them much that no man should know this: and he commanded that'something'should be given her to eat.

And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?

And the people from whatever place that does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off from under your shoes as evidence against them." [Note: This was a Jewish custom showing disdain and intended to suggest their unworthiness].

And Herod the king heard of him (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among the dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.

And Herod having heard, said -- 'He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

For Herod himself had sent [guards] and had John arrested and shackled in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his [half-] brother Philip, because he (Herod) had married her.

when the daughter of this very Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those reclining together, and, the king, said unto the damsel - Ask me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee;

Then she hurried in at once and asked the king, saying, "I want you to give me this very moment John the Baptist's head on a dish."

at this the king was exceedingly concern'd; however, in regard to his oath, and to those who were at table with him, he would not refuse her;

And [when] his disciples heard [this], they came and took away his corpse and placed it in a tomb.

And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:

The number eating the loaves of bread was five thousand men. [Note: This was besides women and children. See Matt. 14:21].

And about then Jesus compelled His disciples to get into a boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side [i.e., to the west side of Lake Galilee] to Bethsaida [Note: This was apparently a different "Bethsaida" from the one mentioned in Luke 9:10, which was on the east side of Lake Galilee], while He Himself sent the crowd away.

Then He got up into the boat with them and the wind [immediately] stopped. And His disciples were greatly amazed [at this],

(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.

And when they returned from the open shopping markets they refused to eat [anything] until they washed themselves [or "it," that is, the food, thoroughly]. There were also many other traditions which they [strictly] observed, like washing cups, pots and copper kettles [thoroughly].) [Note: The most accurate Greek manuscripts do not add "and beds" in this verse].

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God),

so you nullify the [authority of the] word of God [acting as if it did not apply] because of your tradition which you have handed down [through the elders]. And you do many things such as that.”

Then he called the crowd to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this:

This verse ommitted from translation

After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.

because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said , making all meats clean.

But he said, that which comes out of the man, this defiles him;

Now the woman was a Greek [i.e., a Gentile], a Syrophoenician by nationality. [Note: This was a region just north of Galilee and consisted of Syria and Phoenicia]. She begged Him to drive out the evil spirit from her daughter.

Soon after this Jesus left the region of Tyre, and passed through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of Decapolis [the ten Hellenistic cities].

And he gave them orders not to give news of it to anyone; but the more he made this request, so much the more they made it public.

"My heart yearns over the people," He said; "for this is now the third day they have remained with me, and they have nothing to eat.

His disciples replied to Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this isolated place to feed these people?”

So Jesus gave them this warning. "Take care," he said, "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

And they began arguing with one another because they had no bread, He noted this and said to them.

At this he laid his hands on his eyes once more, and the man stared in front of him; he was quite restored and saw everything distinctly.

Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the villages [in the vicinity] of Caesarea Philippi [Note: This was a city about

He was stating the matter plainly [not holding anything back]. Then Peter took Him aside and began to reprimand Him.