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But Jesus said to the apostles, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have only five loaves of bread and two fish. Do you want us to go buy food for all these people?" There are too many!

Then Jesus said, "The Son of Man must suffer many things. He will be rejected by the older Jewish leaders, the leading priests, and teachers of the law. And he will be killed. But after three days he will be raised from death."

Any of you who try to save the life you have will lose it. But you who give up your life for me will save it.

Peter and the others were asleep. But they woke up and saw the glory of Jesus. They also saw the two men who were standing with him.

I begged your followers to make the evil spirit leave my son, but they could not do it."

While the boy was coming, the demon threw the boy to the ground. The boy lost control of himself. But Jesus gave a strong command to the evil spirit. Then the boy was healed, and Jesus gave him back to his father.

But the followers did not understand what he meant. The meaning was hidden from them so that they could not understand it. But they were afraid to ask Jesus about what he said.

But the people there would not welcome Jesus because he was going toward Jerusalem.

But Jesus turned and criticized them for saying this.

He answered, "The foxes have holes to live in. The birds have nests. But the Son of Man has no place where he can rest his head."

Jesus said to another man, "Follow me!" But the man said, "Lord, let me go and bury my father first."

But Jesus said to him, "Let the people who are dead bury their own dead. You must go and tell about God's kingdom."

Another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me go and say goodbye to my family."

Jesus said, "Anyone who begins to plow a field but looks back is not prepared for God's kingdom."

He said to them, "There is such a big harvest of people to bring in. But there are only a few workers to help harvest them. God owns the harvest. Ask him to send more workers to help bring in his harvest.

"You can go now. But listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves.

If the people living there love peace, your blessing of peace will stay with them. But if not, your blessing of peace will come back to you.

"But if you go into a town and the people don't welcome you, then go out into the streets of that town and say,

‘Even the dirt from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that God's kingdom is coming soon.'

But on the judgment day it will be worse for you than for Tyre and Sidon.