That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed.

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

So he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years but could not be healed by anyone.

She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and at once the bleeding stopped.

But when Jesus heard this, he told him, “Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”

Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them to tell no one what had happened.

As they were walking along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Do not carry a money bag, a traveler’s bag, or sandals, and greet no one on the road.

But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say,

Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.

But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things,

because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

But he replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!