He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

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.

So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.

So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Be quiet! Calm down!” Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.

They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, “Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!”

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

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

He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no bag, no money in their belts –

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.