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He spoke to his talmidim that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."

But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own talmidim he explained all things.

who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

They came to Yeshua, and saw him who was possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Yeshua had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Ya'ir by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

having heard the things concerning Yeshua, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.

For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well."

His talmidim said to him, "You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his talmidim followed him.

When the Shabbat had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Miryam, and brother of Ya`akov, Yosi, Yehudah, and Shim`on? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended by him.

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

He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk, and healed them.

King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "Yochanan the immerser has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers work in him."

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested Yochanan, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Pilipos's wife, for he had married her.