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When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.

They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him.

He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue.

And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them,

His disciples replied, "How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?"

Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and they distributed them to the crowd.

And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, "Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."

He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Can you see anything?"

Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he looked intently and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

Then he sent him away to his home, saying, "Do not even go into the village."

Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them.

and whenever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so."

When he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"