Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up.”

He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no bag, no money in their belts –

So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

Sighing deeply in his spirit he said, “Why does this generation look for a sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to this generation.”

When he learned of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

They said, “John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and still others, one of the prophets.”

He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Then, after he went into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”

Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”