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So Jesus called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.

so that, " 'they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!' "

A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped.

He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"

So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

and pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live."

So Jesus went with him.

So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to,

So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison,

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. "This is a remote place," they said, "and it's already very late.

Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with 'unclean' hands?"

"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?

Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it.