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And he lifted up his eyes to his disciples and said, "Blessed are the poor, because yours is the kingdom of God.

A disciple is not superior to his teacher, but everyone, when he is fully trained, will be like his teacher.

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

After he had finished all his statements in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

So when he heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come and cure his slave.

And it happened that on the next day he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

And as he approached the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, his mother's only son, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother.

And fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has visited to help his people!"

And his disciples reported to John about all these things. And summoning a certain two of his disciples, John

and standing behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and was wiping them with the hair of her head and was kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfumed oil.

"The sower went out to sow his seed, and while he was sowing, some seed fell on the side of the path and was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

And his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

Now his mother and brothers came to him, and they were not able to meet with him because of the crowd.

Now it happened that on one of the days both he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." And they set sail,

So they went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting there clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid.

And behold, a man who was named Jairus came, and this man was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at the feet of Jesus and began imploring him to come to his house,

came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her hemorrhaging stopped.

(For there were about five thousand men.) So he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."

And he said to them all, "If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.