All the people who gathered to worship were praying outside during this hour of incense offering.

News of him spread even more and huge crowds gathered to listen and to be healed from their illnesses.

Each tree is known by its own fruit. People don’t gather figs from thorny plants, nor do they pick grapes from prickly bushes.

Parable of the soils

When a great crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one city after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

Then everyone gathered from the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave their area because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and returned across the lake.

“Whoever isn’t with me is against me, and whoever doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

Warnings to Jesus’ friends

When a crowd of thousands upon thousands had gathered so that they were crushing each other, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples: “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees—I mean, the mismatch between their hearts and lives.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who were sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your people just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you didn’t want that.

Occasions for celebration

All the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around Jesus to listen to him.

Soon afterward, the younger son gathered everything together and took a trip to a land far away. There, he wasted his wealth through extravagant living.

The disciples asked, “Where, Lord?” Jesus said, “The vultures gather wherever there’s a dead body.”

They got up right then and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven and their companions gathered together.