The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.

Jesus went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them.

Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

And he said to them, “Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

So he called them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them:

And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

As he went along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

They came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.