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

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

He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

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

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.

But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.

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.

When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

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

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, “This is my one dear Son. Listen to him!”

He answered them, “You unbelieving generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him to me.”

Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

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.”

John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage! Get up! He is calling you.”

Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied, “Rabbi, let me see again.”