He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him.

They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know,

Many scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus into their hands.

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” – he said to the paralytic –

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

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

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

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

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, someone ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

They said to him, “Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.”

Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied, “Rabbi, let me see again.”

and said, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”