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And when Jesus came to the port on the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, he was met by two lunatics,* who were just coming out of the cemetery. They were exceedingly vicious so that noman would dare to pass by that road.

So all the city went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they urged him to depart from their borders.

SO he went up into the boat, and crossed over and came to his own city.

But Jesus knew their thoughts; so he said to them, Why do you think evil in your hearts?

No man puts a new patch on an old garment, so as not to weaken that garment, and make the hole larger.

Neither do they pour new wine into worn out skins, so as not to rend the skins, and spill the wine, and the wine runs out, and the skins are ruined; but they pour new wine into new skins, and both of them are well preserved.

So Jesus arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, and saw the singers and the excited crowds.

So he said to his disciples, The harvest is great, and the laborers are few;

But so far as you are concerned, even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

If not so, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Behold those who wear fine clothes are in kings'' houses.

And if not so, What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

And the Pharisees went out, and they took counsel concerning him, so as to do away with him.

So that what was said by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, who said,

Then they brought near to him a lunatic, who was also dumb and blind; and he healed him, so that the dumb and blind man could speak and see.

So if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by what do your sons cast them out? for this reason they will be your judges.

For as Jonah was in the whale''s belly three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth, three days and three nights.

Then it says, I will return to my own house from whence I came out; so it comes back and finds it empty, warm, and well furnished.

And many people gathered around him, so that he had to go up and sit in a boat, and all the people stood on the seashore.

For the heart of this people has become hardened, and their ears hear heavily, and their eyes are dull; so that they cannot see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts; let them return, and I will heal them.

That which was sown upon good soil, this is he who hears my word, and understands it, so he bears fruit and produces some one hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty.