Everyone ¹  ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

None of the seven had children. Finally, the woman died too.

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He ¹  called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.

He said to them, “Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while” (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

When he learned of this, ¹  Jesus said to them, “Why are you arguing ²  about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

Then ¹  he said to them, “Do you still not understand?” ² 

(For they were afraid, and he did not know what to say.) ¹ 

He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.” ¹ 

He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

Be careful! I have told you everything ahead of time.

He came and raised her up by gently taking her hand. Then the fever left her and she began to serve ¹  them.

Now ¹  immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, ²  he said to them, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts? ³ 

Jesus ¹  said to them, “The wedding guests ²  cannot fast while the bridegroom ³  is with them, can they? ⁴  As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law ¹  – were mocking him among themselves: ²  “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

Now when the centurion, ¹  who stood in front of him, saw how he died, ²  he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

Then ¹  they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them. ²  And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]

When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof ¹  above Jesus. ²  Then, ³  after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. ¹  “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.