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He entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions?"

After looking around at all of them, he said to him, "Stretch out your hand." He did so, and his hand was restored.

And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,

He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum.

When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowd from the town.

The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

Fear seized all of them; and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has risen among us!" and "God has looked favorably on his people!"

The disciples of John reported all these things to him. So John summoned two of his disciples

One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.

She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment.

"A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up.

Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd.

One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side of the lake." So they put out,

When he saw Jesus, he fell down before him and shouted at the top of his voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me"—