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"Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!"

And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Son of God!" And he rebuked them and did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

But he said to them, "It is necessary for me to proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.

Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?"

And immediately he stood up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went away to his home, glorifying God.

And amazement seized them all, and they began to glorify God. And they were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen wonderful things today!"

how he entered into the house of God and took the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests alone), and ate it and gave it to those with him?"

Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

And he lifted up his eyes to his disciples and said, "Blessed are the poor, because yours is the kingdom of God.

And fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has visited to help his people!"

I tell you, there is no one greater among those born of women than John, but the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

(And all the people, when they heard this—even the tax collectors—affirmed the righteousness of God, because they had been baptized with the baptism of John,

but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.)

And it happened that afterward also he was going about from one town and village to another preaching and proclaiming the good news concerning the kingdom of God, and the twelve were with him,

And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are in parables, so that ‘Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

Now the parable means this: the seed is the word of God,

But he answered and said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers—the ones who hear the word of God and do it.

And when he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me!"

"Return to your home and tell all that God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.