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

So he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Stand up among all these people.”

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

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

So he called them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

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

Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

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?

On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.”

Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

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

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him.

He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.

He swore to her, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

When they saw him walking on the water they thought he was a ghost. They cried out,

And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.