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and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not mourn.'

"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon!'

"The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a heavy drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' And yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."

Now when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath!"

And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"—so that they might bring charges against Him.

But He said to them, "What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?

"How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

"A BENT REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF, AND A DIMLY BURNING WICK HE WILL NOT EXTINGUISH, UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO VICTORY.

Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to speak was brought to Jesus, and He healed him so that the man who was unable to speak talked and could see.

"And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You."

But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign; and so no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

"Now when the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.

And large crowds gathered to Him, so He got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd was standing on the beach.

"But others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times as much.

"But the one sown with seed on the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times as much."

Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a person took and sowed in his field;

and this is smaller than all the other seeds, but when it is fully grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that THE BIRDS OF THE SKY come and NEST IN ITS BRANCHES."

He spoke another parable to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened."