Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom.

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.

Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

He came and raised her up by gently taking her hand. Then the fever left her and she began to serve them.

He replied, “Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.”

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

So he called them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

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

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.”

Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.

When he entered he said to them, “Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

He strictly ordered that no one should know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.

He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the area.

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

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

And Jesus ordered them, “Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!”

He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,