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But when the Scribes of the Pharisee sect saw Him eating with the sinners and the tax-gatherers, they said to His disciples, "He is eating and drinking with the tax-gatherers and sinners!"

One Sabbath He was walking through the wheatfields when His disciples began to pluck the ears of wheat as they went.

"Have you never read," Jesus replied, "what David did when the necessity arose and he and his men were hungry:

how he entered the house of God in the High-priesthood of Abiathar, and ate the Presented Loaves--which none but the priests are allowed to eat--and gave some to his men also?"

Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed Him;

So He gave directions to His disciples to keep a small boat in constant attendance on Him because of the throng--to prevent their crushing Him.

And the foul spirits, whenever they saw Him, threw themselves down at His feet, screaming out: "You are the Son of God."

He appointed twelve of them, that they might be with Him, and that He might also send them to proclaim His Message,

Hearing of this, His relatives came to seize Him by force, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

So if Satan has risen in arms and has made war upon himself, stand he cannot, but meets his end.

Nay, no one can go into a strong man's house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

By this time His mother and His brothers arrive, and standing outside they send a message to Him to call Him.

And, fixing His eyes on the people who were sitting round Him in a circle, He said,

Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,

When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.

Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:

Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.

But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion: so they woke Him. "Rabbi," they cried, "is it nothing to you that we are drowning?"

At once, on His landing, there came from the tombs to meet Him a man possessed by a foul spirit.