But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and at that time they will fast.

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

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.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

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.

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

Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.

Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

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

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

Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,

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