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But after it is planted, it grows to be the largest of all garden plants and puts forth great branches, so that the birds of the air nest in its shade."

Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.

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?"

"Why are you so afraid?" He asked. "Do you still have no faith?"

So the demons begged Jesus, "Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them."

So the man went away and began to proclaim throughout the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.

and pleaded with Him urgently, "My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live."

So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around Him.

So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them.

So they set out and preached that the people should repent.

So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she had been unable,

So without delay, the king commanded that John's head be brought in. He sent an executioner who went and beheaded him in the prison.

So they went away in a boat by themselves to a solitary place.

By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, "This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late.

Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands."

Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters."

"Are you still so dull?" He asked. "Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man's ears. Then He spit and touched the man's tongue.