Study Desk

Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.

Then Jesus' mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you."

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven ."

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."

So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"

They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, "Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!"

They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind—the one who had the "Legion"—and they were afraid.

Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child's father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren't his sisters here with us?" And so they took offense at him.

So they went out and preached that all should repent.

They cast out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

When John's disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.