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He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"

John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.

No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."

It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.

He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry -- he, and they who were with him?

The Pharisees went out, and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"

He went up into the mountain, and called to himself whom he wanted, and they went to him.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

Most assuredly I tell you, all their sins will be forgiven to the sons of men, and their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme;

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."

that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

These are they by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.