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He spoke to his disciples 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 lay hold on 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 disciples he explained all things.

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

They came to Jesus, 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 Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

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

having heard the things concerning Jesus, 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 disciples 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 disciples followed him.

When the Sabbath 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 Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended by him.

Jesus 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, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers work in him."

For Herod himself had sent out and laid hold on John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.