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Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a large multitude from Galilee followed, and also from Judea,

for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had diseases pushed in around Him in order to touch Him.

And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach,

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve disciples, began asking Him about the parables.

"And in a similar way these are the ones sown with seed on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

"And others are the ones sown with seed among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

"And those are the ones sown with seed on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much."

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large branches, with the result that THE BIRDS OF THE SKY can NEST UNDER its shade."

And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to understand it;

After dismissing the crowd, they took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.

And a fierce gale of wind developed, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling with water.

When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him.

He lived among the tombs; and no one was able to bind him anymore, not even with a chain,

because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces; and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and cutting himself with stones.

and shouting with a loud voice, he said, "What business do You have with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!"

and pleaded with Him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live."

And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.

"Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are His sisters not here with us?" And they took offense at Him.

And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.