Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.

But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue ruler, “Do not be afraid; just believe.”

When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.

Some people standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?”

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.

You have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?” They all condemned him as deserving death.

So the soldiers led him into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called together the whole cohort.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

But if we say, ‘From people – ’” (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).

The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!”

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

“But as for that day or hour no one knows it – neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son – except the Father.

Now there were five thousand men who ate the bread.

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.