Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded those who brought them.

Then Jesus and his disciples went to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.

And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

His disciples answered him, “Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

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.

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,

His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”