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And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

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

And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him;

And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were saying, "He is beside himself."

But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may plunder his house.

And his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him.

And he taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:

he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the man who had had the legion; and they were afraid.

Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Ja'irus by name; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.

For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well."

And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'"

He went away from there and came to his own country; and his disciples followed him.

And on the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; and many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him? What mighty works are wrought by his hands!

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

And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house."

And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people and healed them.

For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Hero'di-as, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his courtiers and officers and the leading men of Galilee.