Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.

for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.

And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.”

And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

The Purpose of the Parables

And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

And he looked around to see who had done it.

And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.

Jesus Heals a Boy with an Unclean Spirit

And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.

Temptations to Sin

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

The Parable of the Tenants

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.

Beware of the Scribes

And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces