a light, for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”

As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,

Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

After Jesus had finished teaching all this to the people, he entered Capernaum.

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

He said to them, “What things?” “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied, “a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,