And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”

And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.

That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons.

And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

Jesus Calls Levi

He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.

for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.

“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,

And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.

And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught.

Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.

And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all.

And they all ate and were satisfied.

for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,

What Defiles a Person

And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:

since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)