But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!” Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!”

But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Then he said to them, “Nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

As Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man from the town met him who was possessed by demons. For a long time this man had worn no clothes and had not lived in a house, but among the tombs.

Thus they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that have happened there in these days?”

So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.

and as they sailed he fell asleep. Now a violent windstorm came down on the lake, and the boat started filling up with water, and they were in danger.