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He said to them, "So then, every Torah-teacher who has been made into a talmid for the Kingdom of Heaven is like the owner of a home who brings out of his storage room both new things and old."

and went to his home town. There he taught them in their synagogue in a way that astounded them, so that they asked, "Where do this man's wisdom and miracles come from?

Isn't he the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Miryam? and his brothers Ya‘akov, Yosef, Shim‘on and Y'hudah?

And his sisters, aren't they all with us? So where does he get all this?"

And they took offense at him. But Yeshua said to them, "The only place people don't respect a prophet is in his home town and in his own house."

and said to his attendants, "This must be Yochanan the Immerser. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him."

For Herod had arrested Yochanan, put him in chains and thrown him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip;

The king became deeply upset; but out of regard for the oaths he had sworn before his dinner guests, he ordered that her wish be granted,

Yeshua immediately stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "Such little trust! Why did you doubt?"

They begged him that the sick people might only touch the tzitzit on his robe, and all who touched it were completely healed.

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,' and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, "I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,"

then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.' Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of God!

What makes a person unclean is not what goes into his mouth; rather, what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean!"

But Yeshua did not say a word to her. Then his talmidim came to him and urged him, "Send her away, because she is following us and keeps pestering us with her crying."

But she came, fell at his feet and said, "Sir, help me!"

and large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

Yeshua called his talmidim to him and said, "I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me three days, and now they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry, because they might collapse on the way home."

Everyone ate his fill, and they took seven large baskets full of the leftover pieces.

But his response was, "When it is evening, you say, ‘Fair weather ahead,' because the sky is red;