But so that you may know<n id="1" /> that the Son of Man<n id="2" /> has authority on earth to forgive sins,&#8221; &#8211; he said to the paralytic<n id="3" /> &#8211;

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth.<n id="1" /> &#8220;Follow me,&#8221; he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

Other seed fell on rocky ground<n id="1" /> where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.<n id="2" />

These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.

<t /><p class="bodytext">He also said to them, &#8220;A lamp<n id="1" /> isn&#8217;t brought to be put under a basket<n id="2" /> or under a bed, is it? Isn&#8217;t it to be placed on a lampstand?

Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request:<n id="1" /> &#8220;I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.&#8221;

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.<n id="1" />

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

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

So they brought the boy<n id="1" /> to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He<n id="2" /> fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Jesus said to him, &#8220;Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another.<n id="1" /> All will be torn down!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For nation will rise up in arms<n id="1" /> against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines.<n id="2" /> These are but the beginning of birth pains.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over<n id="1" /> to councils<n id="2" /> and beaten in the synagogues.<n id="3" /> You will stand before governors and kings<n id="4" /> because of me, as a witness to them.

Going a little farther, he threw himself to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour would pass from him.

they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them;<n id="1" /> they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.&#8221;

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest<n id="1" /> and ate the sacred bread,<n id="2" /> which is against the law<n id="3" /> for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to his companions?&#8221;<n id="4" />

After looking around<n id="1" /> at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts,<n id="2" /> he said to the man, &#8220;Stretch out your hand.&#8221; He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while<n id="1" /> the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

But<n id="1" /> these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.&#8221;p>