John wore a garment made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

He proclaimed, “One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

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

The sower sows the word.

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

Now King Herod heard this, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some were saying, “John the baptizer has been raised from the dead, and because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him.”

They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.