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The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
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“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
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Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
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The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.
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The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.”
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That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed.
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Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
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Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.
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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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When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon.
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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 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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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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Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter,
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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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Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
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Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
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Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man—and told about the pigs as well.
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Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.
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Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”
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So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.
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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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While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
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When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly.
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He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.
