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So one of the people there said to him, "Look, your mother and brothers are standing outside, and they want to speak with you."

The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the crowd stood on the shore.

For the person who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but the person who has nothing will have taken away from him even the little he has.

So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them: ‘This people will listen and listen, but not understand; they will look and look, but not see,

But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up, it is the biggest of all plants. It becomes a tree, so that birds come and make their nests in its branches."

Just as the weeds are gathered up and burned in the fire, so the same thing will happen at the end of the age:

"The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man happens to find a treasure hidden in a field. He covers it up again, and is so happy that he goes and sells everything he has, and then goes back and buys that field.

So he replied, "This means, then, that every teacher of the Law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who takes new and old things out of his storage room."

And so they rejected him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is respected everywhere except in his hometown and by his own family."

On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced in front of the whole group. Herod was so pleased

So he had John beheaded in prison.

When Jesus heard the news about John, he left there in a boat and went to a lonely place by himself. The people heard about it, and so they left their towns and followed him by land.

"Come!" answered Jesus. So Peter got out of the boat and started walking on the water to Jesus.

where the people recognized Jesus. So they sent for the sick people in all the surrounding country and brought them to Jesus.

So Jesus answered her, "You are a woman of great faith! What you want will be done for you." And at that very moment her daughter was healed.

So Jesus ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground.

Some Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Jesus wanted to trap him, so they asked him to perform a miracle for them, to show that God approved of him.

How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah." So he left them and went away.

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing among yourselves about not having any bread? What little faith you have!