A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

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.

After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

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.”

After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

Jesus said to him, “Go, your faith has healed you.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the road.

Then they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.

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.

“You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.