<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> in those days a decree<n id="2" /> went out from Caesar<n id="3" /> Augustus<n id="4" /> to register<n id="5" /> all the empire<n id="6" /> for taxes.

This<n id="1" /> report<n id="2" /> about Jesus<n id="3" /> circulated<n id="4" /> throughout<n id="5" /> Judea and all the surrounding country.p>

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus, in the power of the Spirit,<n id="2" /> returned to Galilee, and news about him spread<n id="3" /> throughout the surrounding countryside.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After<n id="1" /> this, Jesus<n id="2" /> went out and saw a tax collector<n id="3" /> named Levi<n id="4" /> sitting at the tax booth.<n id="5" /> &#8220;Follow me,&#8221;<n id="6" /> he said to him.

But<n id="1" /> Jesus rebuked him:<n id="2" /> &#8220;Silence! Come out of him!&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then, after the demon threw the man<n id="4" /> down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.<n id="5" />

&#8220;A sower went out to sow<n id="1" /> his seed.<n id="2" /> And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds<n id="3" /> devoured it.

So<n id="1" /> the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They<n id="2" /> found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus&#8217; feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.