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So he went to her bed. Jesus held her hand and helped her stand up. The fever left her, and she was healed. Then she began serving them.

So Jesus traveled everywhere in Galilee. He spoke in the synagogues, and he forced demons out of people.

The man left there and told everyone he saw that Jesus had healed him. So the news about Jesus spread. And that is why he could not enter a town if people saw him. He stayed in places where people did not live. But people came from all the towns to the places where he was.

A large crowd gathered to hear him speak. The house was so full that there was no place to stand, not even outside the door. While Jesus was teaching,

But they could not get the man inside to Jesus because the house was so full of people. So they went to the roof above Jesus and made a hole in it. Then they lowered the mat with the paralyzed man on it.

Jesus knew immediately what these teachers of the law were thinking. So he said to them, "Why do you have these questions in your minds?

The Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins. But how can I prove this to you? Maybe you are thinking it was easy for me to say to the crippled man, ‘Your sins are forgiven.' There's no proof it really happened. But what if I say to the man, ‘Stand up. Take your mat and walk'? Then you will be able to see if I really have this power or not." So Jesus said to the paralyzed man,

Jesus went to the lake again, and many people followed him there. So Jesus taught them.

So the Son of Man is Lord of every day, even the Sabbath."

Some Jews there were watching Jesus closely. They were waiting to see if he would heal the man on a Sabbath day. They wanted to see Jesus do something wrong so that they could accuse him.

Jesus said to the man with the crippled hand, "Stand up here so that everyone can see you."

Jesus looked at the people. He was angry, but he felt very sad because they were so stubborn. He said to the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held out his hand, and it was healed.

Jesus saw how many people there were, so he told his followers to get a small boat and make it ready for him. He wanted the boat so that the crowds of people could not push against him.

He had healed many of them, so all the sick people were pushing toward him to touch him.

Then Jesus went up on a hill and invited those he wanted to go with him. So they joined him there.

Then Jesus went home, but again a large crowd gathered there. There were so many people that he and his followers could not eat.

So Jesus called them together and talked to them using some stories. He said, "Satan will not force his own demons out of people.

Another time Jesus began teaching by the lake, and a large crowd gathered around him. He got into a boat so that he could sit and teach from the lake. All the people stayed on the shore near the water.

Some other seed fell among thorny weeds. The weeds grew and stopped the good plants from growing. So they did not make grain.

I do this so that ‘They will look and look but never really see; they will listen and listen but never understand. If they saw and understood, they might change and be forgiven.'"