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And immediately they left their nets, and went after him.

And he called them: and immediately they left Zebedee their father in the ship, with the hired servants, and went after him.

And when they entered Capernaum, he immediately taught on the sabbath in their synagogues.

And they were astonished at his doctrine; for he taught them, as having authority, and not as their Scribes.

And they were all amazed, and inquired one of another, and said: What is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they obey him.

And Simon's mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever: and they told him about her.

And in the evening at the setting of the sun, they brought to him all them that were diseased, and demoniacs.

And he healed many who labored under divers diseases, and cast out many demons; and he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him.

And when they found him, they said to him: Every body is seeking for thee.

45 And he, as he went out, began to proclaim [fn] much, and to divulge the matter; so that Jesus could not openly go into the city, but was without, in desert places; and they came to him from every quarter.

And Jesus again entered into Capernaum, after some days. And when they heard that he was in the house,

And they came to him and brought to him a paralytic, borne between four persons.

And as they could not come near him on account of the crowd, they ascended to the roof, and removed the covering of the place where Jesus was, and let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.

And Jesus knew, in his spirit, that they thus reasoned in themselves; and he said to them: Why reason ye thus in your heart?

And he arose in that hour, took up his bed, and departed in presence of them all: so that they were all amazed, and praised God, saying: We never saw the like.

And it was so, that as he reclined in his [fn] house, many publicans and sinners reclined with Jesus and with his disciples: for they were many, and they followed him.

And when the Scribes and Pharisees saw that he ate with publicans and with sinners, they said to his disciples: Why doth he eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasters; and they came and said to him: Why are the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fasters, and thy disciples fast not?

But the days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast, in that day.

And no one putteth new wine into old sacks, lest the wine burst the sacks, and the sacks be spoiled, and the wine spilled; but they put new wine into new sacks.