He takes his battle position and shakes the earth; with a mere look he frightens the nations. The ancient mountains disintegrate; the primeval hills are flattened. He travels on the ancient roads.

The chariot with the black horses is going to the north country and the white ones are going after them, but the spotted ones are going to the south country.

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”

Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.”

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.