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how he entered the house of God, took and ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for any to eat but the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?"

After looking around at them all, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." The man did so, and his hand was restored.

When morning 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, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,

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

A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

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

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

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

So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has come to help his people!"

John's disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples

Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

Now Jesus' mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, "Let's go across to the other side of the lake." So they set out,