Now some of the experts in the law were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:

There on the hillside, a great herd of pigs was feeding.

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

He replied, “Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.”

Then Jesus entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand.

He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.

Some people standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?”

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe him.

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.

But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you.”