And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.
He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,
And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”
Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,
And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.
And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.
And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,
They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”
And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”
And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—
And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there.
And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”
But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”
And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not,
for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.
But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.
And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late.
And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all.
but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out,
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is, given to God)—
There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.
But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.
Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.
In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,
And they had a few small fish. And having blessed them, he said that these also should be set before them.
The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him.
And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”
And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
For what can a man give in return for his soul?
And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”
And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.
And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute.
And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
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