Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up.”

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.

for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for God),

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.

He said to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and to throw it to the dogs.”

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

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.

For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ’s name will never lose his reward.