But he was silent and did not answer. Again the high priest questioned him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

He said to them, “Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while” (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked, “Do you see anything?”

But after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”

He said to them, “Elijah does indeed come first, and restores all things. And why is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”

Now as soon as they left the synagogue, they entered Simon and Andrew’s house, with James and John.

So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”);

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

And the demonic spirits begged him, “Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them.”

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.