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And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.

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

One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.

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 crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea

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

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

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 was teaching 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 demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus 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 will 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 hometown, 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 these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done 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.