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No man can enter into a strong man''s house and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man; and then he plunders his house.

Then there came his mother and his brothers, and stood outside, and they sent in to call him.

And he taught them much by parables, and in his teaching he said,

And without parables he did not speak to them; but to his disciples, among themselves, he explained everything.

And there came one of the leaders of the synagogue, whose name was Jairus; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,

When she heard concerning Jesus, she came through the dense crowd from behind him, and touched his cloak.

For she said, If I can only touch his cloak, I will live.

His disciples said to him, You see the people pressing on you, and yet you say, Who touched me?

AND Jesus went out from thence, and came to his city; and his disciples followed him.

When the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were surprised, and said, Whence did he receive all this? and what wisdom is this which is given to him, that wonders like these are wrought by his hands?

Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and behold, are not his sisters here with us? And they denounced him.

And Jesus said to them, There is no prophet who is insulted, except in his own city, and among his own brothers, and in his own house.

And he could not perform even a single miracle there, except that he laid his hand on a few sick people and healed them.

Then he called his twelve, and began to send them two by two; and he gave them power over the unclean spirits, to cast them out.

And Herod the king heard about Jesus, for his name was known to him; and he said, John the Baptist has risen from the dead; this is why miracles are worked by him.

For this same Herod had sent out and arrested John, and cast him in prison, because of Herodias, wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married.

Then came a state day, when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to his officials, and captains, and the leading men of Galilee.

And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his body and buried it in a grave.

And when it was getting late, his disciples came up to him and said to him, This is a desert place, and it is getting late;

Then he took the five loaves of bread and the two fish, and he looked up to heaven, and he blessed and broke the loaves of bread, and gave them to his disciples to place before them; and they divided the two fish among them all.