Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.

Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

As he went along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin”

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.

His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

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

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

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

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

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.)