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

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.”

At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?”

As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.”

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.