because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

After he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.

Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.

As they were going away, a man who could not talk and was demon-possessed was brought to him.

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate him.

But he sternly warned them not to make him known.

Then the disciples came to him and said, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

because John had repeatedly told him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Then Moses and Elijah also appeared before them, talking with him.

When they looked up, all they saw was Jesus alone.

When they came to the crowd, a man came to him, knelt before him,

I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to heal him.”

He called a child, had him stand among them,

As he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents was brought to him.

Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed them.

The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds regarded him as a prophet.

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him: