Then they asked Jesus to leave their region.

Now when the other ten heard this, they became angry with James and John.

Jesus began to say to them, “Watch out that no one misleads you.

They were distressed, and one by one said to him, “Surely not I?”

Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom.

They began to salute him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

He spoke openly about this. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

Peter began to speak to him, “Look, we have left everything to follow you!”

He took Peter, James, and John with him, and became very troubled and distressed.

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”

Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

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.

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things.

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

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.