After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

Simon and his companions searched for him.

Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.

Some stood up and gave this false testimony against him:

Then the chief priests began to accuse him repeatedly.

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.

And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his tongue loosened, and he spoke plainly.

Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.”

It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

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

If David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!”

But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!”

So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.