telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’

So the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain Jesus had designated.

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

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

Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.

And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

His disciples answered him, “Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

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

Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”

When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

When they were all satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted.”