I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

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

But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

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

And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

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.

Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

Then he called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.

Jesus said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

But she came and bowed down before him and said, “Lord, help me!”

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”

Not counting children and women, there were four thousand men who ate.

So they began to discuss this among themselves, saying, “It is because we brought no bread.”

When the disciples heard this, they were overwhelmed with fear and threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

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

He answered, “Elijah does indeed come first and will restore all things.