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When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, "Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.

And He asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?" But they were silent.

At this, the Pharisees went out and plotted with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

Jerusalem, Idumea, the region beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him when they heard what great things He was doing.

And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and cried out, "You are the Son of God!"

Then Jesus went up on the mountain and called for those He wanted, and they came to Him.

Truly I tell you, the sons of men will be forgiven all sins and blasphemies, as many as they utter.

Then Jesus' mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him,

But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings, and they yielded no crop.

As soon as Jesus was alone with the Twelve and those around Him, they asked Him about the parable.

so that, 'they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.'"

Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.

But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop-thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold."

After they had dismissed the crowd, they took Jesus with them, since He was already in the boat. And there were other boats with Him.

But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, "Teacher, don't You care that we are perishing?"

Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, "Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"