Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”

He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”

and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’

He replied, “Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.”

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be clean!”

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

“I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher, and go home.”

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

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

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

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

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?

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

Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

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

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

When he entered he said to them, “Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”