Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain.” As he said this, he called out, “The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.