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He told him, "See that you do not say anything to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."

As Jesus was having a meal in Levi's home, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread, which is against the law for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?"

Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

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

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.

Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him.

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

I tell you the truth, people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter.

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you."

For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.

For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

(For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!")

Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.