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Jesus Calls His First Disciples
As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
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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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When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and 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 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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Crowds Follow Jesus
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed.
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Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding 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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He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
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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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He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
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“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
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But they laughed at him. After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
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A Prophet Without Honor
Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples.
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On hearing of this, John’s disciples came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.
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By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it’s already very late.
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Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
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and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.
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Jesus Walks on the Water
Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.
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He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them,
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and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
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So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
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After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.
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Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand
During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said,
