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While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
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On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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Jesus Questioned About Fasting
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”
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Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.
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Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.
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Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there.
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Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath.
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Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front of everyone.”
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Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent.
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Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
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Crowds Follow Jesus
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed.
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Jesus Appoints the Twelve
Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him.
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Jesus Accused by His Family and by Teachers of the Law
Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat.
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So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?
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Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.
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The Parable of the Sower
Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge.
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Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
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Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?
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With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.
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Jesus Calms the Storm
That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.”
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Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
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Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man
They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.
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When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him.
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When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him.
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He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!”
