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I will prove to you, then, that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." So he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your bed, and go home!"

So Jesus got up and followed him, and his disciples went along with him.

So he said to his disciples, "The harvest is large, but there are few workers to gather it in.

Heal the sick, bring the dead back to life, heal those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases, and drive out demons. You have received without paying, so give without being paid.

So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!

"So do not be afraid of people. Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered, and every secret will be made known.

So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!

The people in the towns where Jesus had performed most of his miracles did not turn from their sins, so he reproached those towns.

Not long afterward Jesus was walking through some wheat fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, so they began to pick heads of wheat and eat the grain.

where there was a man who had a paralyzed hand. Some people were there who wanted to accuse Jesus of doing wrong, so they asked him, "Is it against our Law to heal on the Sabbath?"

And a human being is worth much more than a sheep! So then, our Law does allow us to help someone on the Sabbath."

He did this so as to make come true what God had said through the prophet Isaiah:

Then some people brought to Jesus a man who was blind and could not talk because he had a demon. Jesus healed the man, so that he was able to talk and see.

When the Pharisees heard this, they replied, "He drives out demons only because their ruler Beelzebul gives him power to do so."

Jesus knew what they were thinking, and so he said to them, "Any country that divides itself into groups which fight each other will not last very long. And any town or family that divides itself into groups which fight each other will fall apart.

So if one group is fighting another in Satan's kingdom, this means that it is already divided into groups and will soon fall apart!

You say that I drive out demons because Beelzebul gives me the power to do so. Well, then, who gives your followers the power to drive them out? What your own followers do proves that you are wrong!

In the same way that Jonah spent three days and nights in the big fish, so will the Son of Man spend three days and nights in the depths of the earth.

it says to itself, ‘I will go back to my house.' So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up.

Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day."