Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, “sons of thunder”);

I tell you the truth, people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter.

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?

It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

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

They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind – the one who had the “Legion” – and they were afraid.

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

At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”

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 it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

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.”

She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him