But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

After looking around at them all, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored.

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

“Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.

To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

When they came to Jesus, they urged him earnestly, “He is worthy to have you do this for him,

Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.

Simon answered, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Some time afterward he went on through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,

“No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light.

Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him.

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and the demonic spirits begged Jesus to let them go into them. He gave them permission.