Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

They were amazed at his teaching, because he spoke with authority.

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s business partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”

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

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

After Jesus had finished teaching all this to the people, he entered Capernaum.

So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!”

This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’