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telling them, "Say ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him while we were sleeping.'

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths!'"

And John was dressed in camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

And he was preaching, saying, "One who is more powerful than I is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, and they were in the boat mending the nets.

And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

And becoming angry, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be made clean."

And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they were reasoning like this within themselves, said to them, "Why are you considering these things in your hearts?

And he got up and immediately picked up his stretcher and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

And it happened that he was dining in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many and they were following him.

And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, began to say to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way while plucking off the heads of grain.

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

And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd from Galilee followed him. And from Judea

And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him.

And when his family heard this, they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, "He has lost his mind!"

But no one is able to enter into the house of a strong man and plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man, and then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

And his mother and his brothers arrived, and standing outside, they sent word to him to summon him.

And he began to teach them many things in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching,

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