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His winnowing shovel is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the evil things he had done,

As he began his ministry, Jesus was about thirty years old and was thought to be the

They were all speaking well of him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth; yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

He also said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

But he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.

They were astonished at his teaching because his message had authority.

When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to him. As he laid his hands on each one of them, he healed them.

When it was day, he went out and made his way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for him. They came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

Reaching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean,”

Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were guests with them.

But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

On a Sabbath, he passed through the grainfields. His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.

When daylight came, he summoned his disciples, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

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

After coming down with them, he stood on a level place with a large crowd of his disciples and a great number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

Then looking up at his disciples, he said:

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart. An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, requesting him to come and save the life of his servant.