So he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?”

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him.”

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.”

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here soon.’”

So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.

Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,