The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

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

The leprosy left him at once, and he was clean.

Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.

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

and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.

He answered them and said, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

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

And he said to them, “Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?”

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him.

(For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”)

for she kept saying, “If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.”

And he was amazed because of their unbelief. Then he went around among the villages and taught.

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

Then he directed them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.

After saying good-bye to them, he went to the mountain to pray.

because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.