When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

Simon and his companions searched for him.

Immediately Jesus sent the man away with a very strong warning.

Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.

He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.

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

Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.

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

He came and raised her up by gently taking her hand. Then the fever left her and she began to serve them.

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

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him.

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.

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him.

So he told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again.”