Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit

They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.

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.

Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners

Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them.

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.

Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

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.

Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

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.

Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing?

Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits.

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

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,

At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.

The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven.

Jesus Predicts His Death

He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.

He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

The Transfiguration

After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them.

His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them.

And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.