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Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.

And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind."

"Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,

And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.

And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you."

so that "‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.'"

And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.

And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.

And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.

And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,

And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.

But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"

And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

and they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs; let us enter them."

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

And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.

They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.

And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.