Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

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

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

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.”

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

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

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

When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for God),

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.