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Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Jesus asked His disciples to have a boat ready for Him so that the crowd would not crush Him.

When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

Jesus made this statement because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,

Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,

Jesus also said to them, “Does anyone bring in a lamp to put it under a basket or under a bed? Doesn’t he set it on a stand?

He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.

Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?

Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.

“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”

Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

For Jesus had already declared, “Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!”

For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”

At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”

His disciples answered, “You can see the crowd pressing in on You, and yet You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”

Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth.

“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”

Then Jesus gave strict orders that no one should know about this, and He told them to give her something to eat.

Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

And He told them, “When you enter a house, stay there until you leave that area.

Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

Others were saying, “He is Elijah,” and still others, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”

But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead!”

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

When the daughter of Herodias came and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests, and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”

Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”

By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late.

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”

Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),

Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:

He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

They also had a few small fish, and Jesus blessed them and ordered that these be set before them as well.

Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?”

The man looked up and said, “I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around.”

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”

Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

Then Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God arrive with power.”