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And the Pharisees said to him: See, how on the sabbath, they do that which is not lawful?

And they watched him, that if he should heal on the sabbath, they might accuse him.

And he said also to them: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, or to do evil? to give life to a person, or to destroy? But they were silent

And the Pharisees went out, that very hour, with the domestics of Herod, and held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan, and from Tyre, and from Sidon: great multitudes, when they heard all that he did, came to him.

And he told his disciples to bring him a ship, on account of the multitude, lest they should crowd upon him

And they who were afflicted with unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down and cried out, and said: Thou art the Son of God.

And he ascended a mountain, and called whom he pleased; and they came to him.

And Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. And they came to the house:

and the multitude assembled again, so that they could not eat bread.

And his kinsmen heard, and went out to take him; for they said: He is out of his reason.

And the multitude were sitting around him, and they said to him: Lo, thy mother and thy brothers, without, call for thee.

that when they see, they may see and not see, and when they hear, they may hear and not understand; lest they should be converted, and their sins be forgiven them.

And those by the side of the path, are they in whom the word is sown; and as soon as they have heard [fn] , Satan cometh, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

And those sown on the rock, are they who, when they hear the word, immediately with joy receive it.

And they have no root in them, but are temporary; and when there is affliction or persecution on account of the word, they are quickly stumbled.

And those sown among thorns, are they that hear the word,

And those sown on good ground are they that hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruits, by thirties, and by sixties, and by hundreds.

And by many such similitudes, similitudes such as they could hear, Jesus discoursed with the people.

And they sent away the multitudes: and they conducted him in the ship as he was. And there were also with him other little ships.