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Jesus Calls His First Disciples
One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God.
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But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
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Jesus Questioned About Fasting
They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”
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Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to pick some heads of grain, rub them in their hands and eat the kernels.
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When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles:
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Blessings and Woes
He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon,
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Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
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Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him.
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Jesus and John the Baptist
John’s disciples told him about all these things. Calling two of them,
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His disciples asked him what this parable meant.
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Jesus Calms the Storm
One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out.
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The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.
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“Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”
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(About five thousand men were there.) But he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
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The disciples did so, and everyone sat down.
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Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people.
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They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
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Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah
Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say I am?”
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When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. The disciples kept this to themselves and did not tell anyone at that time what they had seen.
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I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not.”
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And they were all amazed at the greatness of God.
Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time
While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus did, he said to his disciples,
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An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.
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When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?”
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Then he and his disciples went to another village.
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Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
